2006-06-07 23:18:18 · 12 answers · asked by volley_addict 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
These two fundamental reasons for studying history underlie more specific and quite diverse uses of history in our own lives. History well told is beautiful. Many of the historians who most appeal to the general reading public know the importance of dramatic and skillful writing—as well as of accuracy. Biography and military history appeal in part because of the tales they contain. History as art and entertainment serves a real purpose, on aesthetic grounds but also on the level of human understanding. Stories well done are stories that reveal how people and societies have actually functioned, and they prompt thoughts about the human experience in other times and places. The same aesthetic and humanistic goals inspire people to immerse themselves in efforts to reconstruct quite remote pasts, far removed from immediate, present-day utility. Exploring what historians sometimes call the "pastness of the past"—the ways people in distant ages constructed their lives—involves a sense of beauty and excitement, and ultimately another perspective on human life and society.
2006-06-07 23:22:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
History shapes our future. Think about it if you're american if european settlers never came to America you would be an European and native indians would be in America. South african would not be white ...everything needs to evolve.
It also makes people appreciate what others have gone through to see them where they are now.
2006-06-08 06:23:46 · answer #2 · answered by kida_w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uhmm.. i will just give 1 importance of studying history esp. in studying world history.. if we will go to other country we will be familiar to their beliefs and tradition if we know their country's history.. we can easily adopt to their country..
2006-06-11 01:20:00 · answer #3 · answered by beggar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's telling the future through studying the past.
2006-06-08 08:49:44 · answer #4 · answered by Ahmed K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to have experience from the pased time . not to have the same problems again.
2006-06-08 06:22:59 · answer #5 · answered by ladan803 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't learn from the past you will repeat mistakes time and time again.
2006-06-08 06:22:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To learn from it and to honor sacrifices that others have made so we have our present and future.
2006-06-13 19:18:49 · answer #7 · answered by mrsbornkuntry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
history suxxxxxxxxxx !! ewwwwwwww !!
history is simply useless !!
2006-06-08 06:20:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He tells his story
2006-06-08 06:21:11 · answer #9 · answered by Munns 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
recognizing our hero's effort even though theyre not that significant
2006-06-08 06:20:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋