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| Source:Amazon- from a book about American history. |
"The word history comes from the Greek word historía which means "to learn or know by inquiry." In the pieces that follow, we encourage you to probe, dispute, dig deeper — inquire. History is not static. It's fluid. It changes and grows and becomes richer and more complex when any individual interacts with it.
Knowledge of history is empowering. An event is but the furthest ripple of an ever-expanding wave that may have started eddying outward hundreds of years ago. One who "sees" history is able to harness the power of that wave's entire journey.
Finally, the best history has at its foundation a story. A printer challenges a King and so is laid the foundation of the first amendment; a New Jersey miner finds gold in California and sets off a torrent of movement westward; a woman going home from work does not relinquish her seat and a Civil Rights movement explodes.
These stories all help to ask the question, "What is an American?" You'll help to answer that question."
From US History
The whole point of history is to learn from our past, so we don't make the same mistakes in the future. As well as to see what worked in the past and see how we can make that work in the future.
History is: "the study of past events, particularly in human affairs." Anyone who has taken a basic social studies or American history course in American history in high school and bothered to remembered anything that they were taught, at least has a basic understanding of American history. And without it we can't learn from our past mistakes and see how we can apply what worked in the past to modern life and society.
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