Does History Really Need To Be Protected? History is something that everyone knows about. People learn about it all through school, the fights and people that made our country and the world what it is today. However, it seems that the history they all know is under attack. Many people are forgetting the good that can come from knowing their history and are trying to hide it away. History needs to be protected and remembered, not hidden away and forgotten. People should not be afraid of their history, they can learn a lot from it. If people were to only take the time to truly look into their history and learn from it, then they would be able to prevent from making many of the same mistakes that have been made in the past. They could also …show more content…
Because of that, history needs protection from those people who do want to hide it. People should realize that hiding history away is not a good idea. History can be a valuable tool if used correctly. But, if they simply hide it away and forget about it, it does them no good whatsoever. The only thing that could come from hiding history away is a greater likely hood to repeat past mistakes. For some people though, hiding history doesn't seem to be enough, they simply want to tear it down. There are statues all over the United States of important people from the past. Granted some of them made some not so good choices, nobody's perfect. People want to tear down statues of Confederate soldiers or fighters (Karimi, #1). They use the excuse that the statues stand for the beliefs of the Confederates. Not everyone sees it that way though, some see the statues as a reminder of a past mistake, a reminder to not make the same mistakes now. If they tear down these statues, if we forget or tear down or hide that part of our history, we might just end up making that same mistake again. People must face the fact that those people and those mistakes are part of their history, accept it and learn from it. People cannot change the past, no matter how much they want
Memory plays a very important in how history is interpreted. As time goes on and an event slips further into the past some of the memory's that are passed on are distorted and can change entirely. Things that happened during the Civil War that may have seemed important are replaced with things that may seem more important to us now.
...an extremely difficult concept to grasp. However, history must always be remembered correctly. Otherwise, as Geoffrey Keynes stated, “history will repeat itself”.
The world is living histories. For instance, communities speak the languages that are inherited from the past and, practice cultural and religious traditions that have not been created on the spur of a moment. In this sense, acknowledging history is essential for rooting people in time. Nonetheless, sometimes a dreadful past can inhibit a country to undertake its own history. For example, the United States has long been telling
Furthermore,I believe that we should keep the confederate monuments up so that people around the United States don't forget our great acts in history,because if we forget our history it could repeat itself over and over again. We must acknowledge the good with the bad and not tear down the monuments.(Brophy)
How does memory affect the way in which history is viewed? Memory is based on a series of decisions on what is worth remembering and what should be forgotten. It is a process of suppressing history that is unbearable or difficult, yet it is also about reflecting on what is misunderstood. Memory is formed through several influencing factors and elements; Memory can be formed by the study of pop culture and icons, which often propose a reexamination of difficult and repressed memories. Memory is also influenced through exclusions and biases. These can be racially or politically motivated, but they could also derive from personal or cultural trauma. Recorded history such as textbooks, novels,
...lar occurrences. The point of knowing history is to learn from it, and if a culture is unaware of the warning signs, they are all but doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. The same trail of cause and effect that led so readily and easily to the Salem witch trials is just as likely to lead to an equally devastating event today.
History is convoluted by perception. There are two ways of looking at history: through our own memories and perception, and through that of others. It is impossible to preserve history in its ideal form. If we look at history through our own memories, we will not see the reality of history, we will see our individual version of the reality. The same thing happens when we look at history through the memories and perception of others. Media is sometimes used to preserve history, but even this is only a perceived version of history.
people see history in different ways for the simple fact that they do not see them in
History is a subject that some people may find interesting, and some may feel as if it is useless knowledge of facts. Although learning history does provide one with knowledge, the reason for history is much more than simple fact. Learning history is vital for the choices we make in our future, and if history is not being taught, or instilled into the minds of our youth then the lack of knowledge could be detrimental to the progression in their future. We study history to understand the thoughts of our ancestors, and how they dealt with moral and ethical dilemmas. Although the choices made were not always positive, or progressive, they still provide us with helpful lessons on how to assess the problems we now face in the present. Therefore, schools should not purchase textbooks that offer revised or alternative histories of historical events. Offering alternative or revised editions leave students with information that could contain bias information of past historical events. Deprivation of important historical events could lead to a greater risk of repetition of the same events that lead to disaster in the past. History helps us change, and contributes to moral understanding. Every part of history needs to be studied in depth, and a lesson needs to be learned as well as taught. If certain lessons such as slavery, The Holocaust, and the World Wars were just simply absent from our history books what could be said about our future? Would these disastrous events reoccur, and be more devastating than ever before? How can one assess and deal with a problem they have never faced?
Some examples of events we wouldn't want to repeat are things like slavery, WWI and WWII etc. If we learn and read about these events then we can prevent them from happening all over again because people will realize that we have already made terrible mistakes and hopefully not make them happen again because they would see what devastating effects it had on the country or even the world in the past. In Fahrenheit 451 it says “We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022.” (Bradbury 69) This shows that they have had more wars, and if we were to read about past wars or known about them then we could have prevented it from happening because we could've seen the effects it made, but since books have to be burned and it’s illegal to read we couldn’t read about the past. I think that a history book should be preserved so we can prevent things from the past from
Moreover, I believe history is an ‘incomplete truth’. The narrators deliver only what they desire for the readers to know. In most cases, that means they only convey the happy and glorious messages while leaving out the hardships and ill-favored details. Another element that plays into the untruthfulness of published history is the tweaks and changes it undergoes. When you place these two factors together, it ironically seems that some ‘history’ may only be loosely based on true events. An example of that could be something as simple as a kid not telling the whole truth to their parents. I can remember a time when I had found a watch that my mother had lost, behind the bed. Naturally, I grabbed it and gave it to my mother.
History is a story told over time. It is a way of recreating the past so it can be studied in the present and re-interpreted for future generations. Since humans are the sole beneficiaries of history, it is important for us to know what the purpose of history is and how historians include their own perspective concerning historical events. The purpose and perspective of history is vital in order for individuals to realise how it would be almost impossible for us to live out our lives effectively if we had no knowledge of the past. Also, in order to gain a sound knowledge of the past, we have to understand the political, social and cultural aspects of the times we are studying.
It's difficult to say why some of the more abnormal, and perhaps more interesting, details of history are forgotten or conveniently left out. Perhaps for simplicity, or perhaps to make history look more noble and admirable. Personally, I believe it's similar to people trying to forget their mistakes and the times they were "less than bright," in order to create an exaggerated image of themselves. Similarly, history tries to forget its more embarrassing moments, so that it may create a more more noble...
History is a study of the past. Either good or bad that happened in the past is history. People think that they should learn their history. And there are so many books and movies about history to let us know. Also history is one of the basic curricula in high school. But not all of us can answer precisely why do we need to learn history? And how does it affect us? It is a question that cannot be answered by one single answer. This can be answered those who know about history.
Learning about history helps us learn about the humanities own reflection and what’s good or bad about it. This is just like a diary , people and by people I mean historians , just wrote what they saw and what seemed to cause a major change in society and we just happen to be reading it a couple of years later. I believe that historians actually wrote historical truth because it makes sense and it has been scientifically proven