Response To History

History is often fabricated and told in a way that is appealing to youth and descendants. History is often told from “white eyes” Loewen suggest that it be told through red eyes to provide true insight in what has formed our country. “One does not start from point zero, but from minus ten” (Loewens 93). High School students are presented information in a biased way. Students are not always taught how to view a situation through another perspective. Students are only able to view a situation based on how they have lived or what they know best. When teaching history of the world teachers often teach harsh situations from the past in ways that are fabricated. “If we look Indian history squarely in the eye, we are going to get red eyes” (Loewen 95). In this statement Loewen suggest that if a reader looks at a situation “squarely” the reader will develop “red eyes” that open the reader up to reality of our decedents and the

In The Death of History is Bunk, Patrick Watson argues that the decrease of historical content in the curriculum does not indicate that history, as a subject, is declining. While many complain about the decreasing prominence of history classes in Canadian schools, the content of those classes is excessively dull as it consists of memorizing lists of facts. Despite this, there are still protests that knowledge of “defining events” is required to contribute to “the National Conversation”. However, history is not so simple as a list of events—it is the sum of the small happenings in society around the events. A whole variety of factors influence history, which is created by the common people. Unlike Americans, who turn to their constitution for

The Puritans and Pilgrims have similar backgrounds but yet they were different in many ways. One difference being that Pilgrims used to be Puritans when they came to the New World. The Pilgrims were known as separatists because there were not happy with the division to the ranks in the Anglican Church. According to A Patriot’s History of the United States one huge difference was the Puritans did not want to entirely separate from the Church of England. They wanted the practices of the church to be turned back to simple form, whereas the Pilgrims were known for leaving the church all together and separating themselves.

Alejandra Dubcovsky author of To understand Science, Study history acknowledges that it is important to study history because history helps us understand past experiences. It does not change and it helps us progress in many different fields. “To be sure, knowing those stories and this history does not change the results of an experiment, alter biology, or change the laws of physics. But the stories--the historical sensitivity--emphasize the contingency and the human decisions, struggles, and misgivings found even in the hardest of sciences. STEM is neither excused nor separate from its past.” (Alejandra Dubcovsky paragraph 10). Often times we do not realize how much history impacts our lives daily and is accountable for where we are today as

What a mixture of feelings the passengers on the Mayflower must have had throughout their ocean journey and the years of settling into a new land! William Bradford , a passenger on the Mayflower and a leader in the new colony, wrote a journal describing the life of the Pilgrims in “Of Plymouth Plantation.” He wrote of many dangers from the long journey overseas and of even more struggles after the colonists arrived in the Cape Cod area. When they arrived, there was nothing on land to welcome them or comfort them. There was no place to sleep and very little food. They encountered wild beasts and wild men and did not know how many of them might be waiting for them in the desolate land. Cold weather hindered any capabilities to start a true settlement

The History Manifesto, the ‘rallying cry’ for the historical field, drew attention to what ought to have been the methodology and research method of choice. This reanalysis of such a fundamental aspect of history came, contrary to the overt argument of Jo Guldi and David Armitage as a result of increasing global concerns and short-term thinking of professionals worldwide, but rather in part to the increased use of digital technology and media in scholarly work. The History Manifesto called for a return to the longue-duree in historical work, as a supposed superior historical method over that of the short-term. Further, the manifesto’s call for increased digital media use ignored the fundamental problems associated with the use of digital technology

History is the study of people and events from the past. However, history in high school is not being taught correctly. For example, Black history is not being taught the way it should be. My experience in high school with learning about black history was that it was not required to be taught. Teachers never really mentioned the important things that happened in black history. They only gave us quotes about black history and some of the people that were apart of black history. I never knew the true meaning of black history and what it was all about. Still today I am not sure what really happened during that period. But the truth behind history is beginning to come out with the removal of the confederate monument. We are now seeing that high

History is something that we all have knowledge of. It may be family history, or even your own but we all know of an experience that happened in the past. These experiences make us who we are, and they determine how we think. Not only that but they determine our emotions towards certain topics. Through characters in the book, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " written by Jamie Ford, we learn that American identity is based on ones history and if we want America to become a stronger more united place everyone’s history must be accepted.

To know the past is to know the future. In his essay Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are, David McCullough argues about the importance of studying and teaching history. In his essay, he explains that there are three main points about history: character and its effect upon destiny, our failure of teaching the future generation, and the importance of learning and listening to history. David McCullough strongly advocates that audience should start to listen to and teach about the past in order to learn about the way a person’s character can affect their destiny.

When you group social groupings, war and weaponry, and the economy together, there may not be an apparent similarity between the three items, however, it truly is apparent, and that similarity is the aspect of competition for power. Throughout the course of the history of the United States, the want for power has been a continuous competition. this competition has been apparent on both a national and international level over disputes of social labeling and values, a competitive industrial economy, and as well a fight to be on top in the scientific worlds of medicine and military through different examples in our past, present, and near future.

History is also who we are as a nation, and as people, it brings understand who we are, why we are the way we are, and even answers question we may not have asked. It brings identity and gives us a purpose for being part of something bigger that we may not necessary not even know we are a part of. Along with understanding people and defining who we are, history as gives us a moral understanding. It lets us learn about people, not in their societies, but who they were as people and makes us think about ourselves. There are stories about people who stood up for what they believed in, who fought for their way of life and worked hard to get to where they ended up being when everyone else said they couldn’t.

History is all about digging into elements of society to obtain knowledge of historical roots, given the fact that linking lines between past and present never breaks. History can be observed by written records and artifacts and conveyed into films, novels, and others. However, Things are changed based on social, political and economic reasons. There are two main reasons why historians record their journeys, to convey an experience of living from the past, and to hope to get useful knowledge. It’s undeniable that the more we understand the past, the better understanding of the present we will get; and we can do that as simple as just asking questions.

The people have misunderstood the history because there are many religions that see the history and the actions and that may lead into a wrong decision but still people take because they think history is always right and as we know that history was told to us and it is not seen by us so it can be wrong or right. For example Stein (1978) states "The widow on her way to the pyre was the object (for once) of all public attention...Endowed with the gift of prophecy and the power to cure and bless, she was immolated amid great fanfare, with great veneration". Only if she was virtuous and pious would she be worthy of being sacrificed consequently being burned or being seen as a failed wife were often her only choices (Stein 1978). The person

Now and days every person must take at least two years of history in order to pass high school. Many people, including myself, ask the question,“Why must we take history?” Well the answer many of us get is, “ So that history does not repeat itself.” The real question of the matter is, Does history repeat itself? History has repeated itself over and over again. An example of this would be the genocide that occurred in the Ottoman empire in 1915, nearly 88 years later another genocide has occurred in Darfur in 2003. These two events are both similar and different in ways, but none-the-less are proof that history does in deed repeat itself.

The past is a source of experience. Ignorance of the past or forgetting it means a loss of an inexpressible value. The folk wisdom say us: “The nation which forgets its history is forced to repeat the same mistakes.” An investigator of history – historian – cannot be a direct witness and observer of the social events and processes being studied. There is a temporal and spatial span