• Historians, Spend Their Lives Pursuing the Meaning of the Past for the Present

     

    Essays1 Pedagogy

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Published: 01.01.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Historians, Spend Their Lives Pursuing the Meaning of the Past for the Present', 1.
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'Professional historians spend their lives pursuing the meaning of the past for the present.' Everything that exists in today's world has some origin coming from the past. Everything that exists today and seems to be unique of its time has some basis from the past. It is a known fact that history has a tendency of repeating itself, and so to prepare us for the future we need to understand the past. History can give a person an answer to almost everything that is going on in the present, with what we call a historical investigation. …

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