The article discusses aims of school history and explores elementary teachers’ views on aims of history. For this purposes, the articles that discussed on aims or use of history were reviewed and five elementary teachers were interviewed. In this study, the aims of school history are divided into eight categories: ‘history as preservation of cultural heritage', ‘history as revival of greatness', ‘history as moral virtues', ‘history as analogy to solve present problems', ‘history as evolution to the present', ‘history as deconstruction', ‘history as a way of knowing', and ‘history as an insight into society and humanity'. This article finds that most of the teachers interviewed want to pursue history as preservation of cultural heritage. However, the teachers also emphasize ‘history as revival of greatness', ‘history as moral virtues', ‘history as analogy to solve present problems', ‘history as evolution to the present', and ‘history as a way of knowing'.