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Question Answered step-by-step Write a Best Reply to this post. ONE The subject of history is from… Write a Best Reply to this post. ONE The subject of history is from my point of view fascinating and incredibly important. I’d also say that I enjoy reading about the past and respect what it can teach us about our present moment in time. I agree with Stearns (1998) that, “history well told is beautiful” unfortunately it is not always the case and he is being a little too positive or perhaps nostalgic in some way because sometimes a historical narrative is sad, brutal, and violent. Nevertheless, my life is by far richer from learning and knowing about historical; events, trends, and truths. Reading history helps us understand the present. I used to travel to Asia frequently while I was in sales. I often wondered how it was the case that the Asian nations and the people are so different? Japanese and Thai people are generally, rather reserved versus the Koreans who are more gregarious in my experience. Reading Korean history one can begin to understand why the Korean people are more assertive because they historically view themselves as being a shrimp between two whales (McGill, 2012). In other words the Korean people on a long peninsula compared to the historical behemoths of power China and Japan, the Koreans have had to endure much.When it comes to elements that make up the study of history what comes to mind first is the collection and presentation of historical evidence. For example, how did the American Indian dress and appear in the early 1800’s? Should we rely solely on the “enthralling” (Downing, 2014) portraits of George Catlin? Should we consider utilizing actual photographs from about the same time period now by Edward Curtis now that we know Curtis carefully staged his models and traveled with an extensive collection of costumes and props that were recycled for multiple images (Sharp, 2017). The collection of accurate historical evidence is critically important to provide a window into the past, yet it is not always available.A second element in studying history that Stearns (1998) suggests is to “assess conflicting interpretations” of the historical evidence. Being a suspicious curmudgeon it makes sense to me that accurate assessment is critical in retelling a history. To the victor comes the opportunity to tell the story in how one feels fit. One Welshman believes that Julis Caesar’s account of the first invasion of Celtic Britain is, “biased and deeply suspicious”, I’ve read this elsewhere (Wyn Williams, n.d.). Another example would be the stories of the Comanche in Texas where the white settlers brutally murdered the natives there and the Comanche were no innocents, they cut the noses off of children to scare the settlers away with this horrific act, see Gwynne, (2010) for this history. Who should a historian believe in assessing history? Maybe one side is right and the other wrong or maybe both sides or a third are all correct, assessing the history correctly and fairly is a challenge.With these two elements as well as others there are several limitations. There first maybe that we have collected solid reliable evidence but perhaps it is incomplete. A second limitation may very well be that we have collected reliable evidence and even provided a rational well thought out assessment on the accuracy and meaning of the information yet it is still biased in some manner be it from a cultural point of view or even a lack of or biased education on the aspect of history it pertains to. TWO One element of studying history is “Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions by identifying likenesses and differences.” (UCLA)Studying the lead up to the American Revolution is something every High School student has to be familiar with but reading accounts of the period from British sources could very well shine a new light on the events leading up to the that.Another element is “Experience in Assessing Past Examples of Change” (Stearns)What are significant changes in history that had ripple effects that lasted for 100’s of years? 1000’s of years?The limitations to studying history is essentially the documents you are examining/studying as well as the person who wrote those documents. Historical events written in real time will have a bias as well as national bias. British History books say Britain won the war and American History books say the US won the war in 1945. Another limitation is sometimes historians get caught up in the weeds when they write about history. As a student I have to sometimes say this is too indepth for me right now.Why is it important for me to study history? The importance is not a new revelation as I have enjoyed studying history since I was in elementary school. I have based my soccer podcast which I have been producing since 2005 on the basis that soccer is not stats, soccer is history. To understand where and why something is in the place where it is at this very moment you have to understand how it got there. Events don’t occur in a vacuum. I enjoy trying to understand how we got to the place we are at now.Trying to understand the relevance of the past to the time we are in now is important as it’s not a direct route from then to now. 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