We live in a world that has become very (white) male-focussed, and even amazing (white, POC) women got written out of our history books that... Yes... You guess right... Have mostly been written by (white) men :-)
That's why it's so important we speak more about awesome, cool, heroic, bright, innovative women \0/ It would literally have made us more interested in history, right?
I think you're right. I know I would have taken more of an interest in history if this were the case. I also if teachers could like events of the past to how things are now, that would also help. One of the things I didn't like about history at school was I could never make the connection between what happened then and why I should be learning about it. As I got older, and I made these connections myself, history became a lot more interesting.