Why I Teach History and Why You Should Care

Categories: Daniel Sheridan, WTK Featured Stories║Published On: January 31st, 2024║Tags: Developing field, Dynamic job, Historians, Human condition, Intellectual endeavor, Methodologies, Narratives, Sources, Statistics, Storytellers║Views: 2611║124 words║

Historians are storytellers who, through captivating writing, construct narratives of the past using various sources, methodologies, and statistics. They don’t merely dust off old archives and declare what happened from these. Historians have a dynamic job, for history isn’t static, and its sources are endless. The field is a developing intellectual endeavor that helps people understand their world and place in it. Historians conceptualize the past as an ongoing discussion with the present, in which they tackle new and old questions from new perspectives and provide fresh visions regarding the human condition. Without history, we would be lost. Imagine waking up in a world where everyone had a stroke that wiped out all memory of humanity’s progress: this would be the worst situation imaginable.

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Debbie Jones January 31, 2024 at 2:13 PM - Reply

Knowing our country’s history is vitally important! We can learn from our past mistakes and our victories. Our children need to know about the events that shaped our country, and how important our U.S. Constitution, the document that our country was founded on, is!