FWIW, my main reaction was that it doesn’t seem like “historical events” traditionally construed are as significant as they used to be. Wars, elections, and what the President/Congress seem forgettable soon after (unless you were directly harmed, as of course too many were).
[should have been “what President/Congress *do*, typo.] & what they do seems to function increasingly as a fusty old-people genre of Hollywood entertainment that’s going out of fashion. Long term, their mismanagement is a huge problem, but the year-by-year details don’t signify.