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The Practice and Purpose of History. Henry Glassie. History tangles the past with the present in webs of fact. Its practice is to treat things that exist here and now as though they concerned the past and to use them in new compositions designed to equip people for their trip into the future.
Why is history important? The study of history is a study of stories. By seeing how people and groups met challenges, by learning how they succeeded and what limited their success, we gain empathy. In a way, the study of history can provide a blueprint for who we are and who we’re not.
What is history? Since its emergence as a distinctive intellectual pursuit among the Greeks in the fifth century BCE, writers from a variety of backgrounds have tried to answer that question. To study, record, and educate others about the past seems so obvious to...
- William J. Reese
- 2007
2 de abr. de 2018 · The answer to “What is history?” should come in the form of a compelling story that is powerfully illustrated—and students must find themselves in it. The time is right, it seems, for our discipline to embrace a 101, a course that speaks boldly and broadly about our purpose and values as historians.
History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. [6] [7] Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects.
18 de feb. de 2007 · The concept of history plays a fundamental role in human thought. It invokes notions of human agency, change, the role of material circumstances in human affairs, and the putative meaning of historical events. It raises the possibility of “learning from history.”
18 de jun. de 2020 · What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different thinkers in diverse contexts have conceived their activities, and to illustrate the purposes that their historical investigations have served.
