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In keeping with this month's news, if you don't know what the Japanese American Internment Camps are, or were rather, you might read up on them. I wasn't taught about them at all.
Another thing that's I think more niche but still ought to be taught is the history of censorship of anti-war protests. There were some terrible rulings about a hundred years ago that were later reversed, and that all made it possible for people to protest Vietnam the way they did.
Finally, one piece of history that's missing from many high school civics classes is any discussion of how unions themselves led to the minimal labor laws that we have today, that union members were killed in large numbers in the process of pushing for said laws.
I learned quite a bit about the Japanese American internment camps in middle school and high school. This was when I was living near Seattle where there's a large Japanese community, so that's probably why.