Save terminal history

In .bash_logout I can read that the reason why the history-feature has been disabled, is to increase the level of privacy.
Linux Mint is a distribution which mission is to be easy to use, and it's not easy to learn Linux when your terminal history gets deleted every time you close the terminal. At that way you can't run commands like "history" and "!cat", and the user gets frustrated when he/she followed a guide for Ubuntu or general Linux that doesn't works with Linux Mint.

Sure privacy is an important thing, but I will mean that Linux Mint is secure enough with password protection an so on.
If you want extreme privacy you should try distributions like http://www.polippix.org/. Linux Mint is an easy to use distribution and therefore I'll recommend the Mint team to disable the history-feature ;)