Abstract: Colleges and universities vigorously carry out the education of “the (Front) Four Historical Books” for their students, which is not only the important task of strengthening the party’s overall leadership over colleges and universities and strengthening the socialist direction of running schools, but also a practical need and a necessary means to implement the party’s educational policy and to deepen the implementation of the fundamental task of high-quality moral cultivation. It is also an effective way to promote Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era “into the classroom, into the textbook, into the mind”, a powerful weapon to continuously strengthen and improve the ideological and political education of college students, to promote the institutionalization, standardization, normalization and long-term effect of ideal and belief education and patriotism education, and to cultivate new generation with “four qualifications” and college students with “six qualifications” who bravely shoulder the important tasks of the times. On the basis of a correct understanding of the educational significance of the "Four Histories" for college students, universities should establish a solid political orientation, adhere to dialectical thinking, grasp the disciplinary attributes, highlight the characteristics of the times, and truly achieve education with distinct contemporary significance and practical value.