When the working day is over and you have spare time to sit in the living room in front of the TV with a cup of hot chocolate, we think about the events that happen during the day and the things that we didn’t manage to do. We may regret or file genuine happiness and satisfaction, but everything we do is in the past, its history. Nobody will reject the fact that history is one of the most important out of the other disciplines. To know » Read more: Importance of History in our life

There is a very old and well-known phrase that says history never repeats. There are a lot of reasons why history never seems to repeat itself and some of those reasons are aesthetic. Events happen at certain points in time and even if you try and recreate those events with the same people a short time later you will probably never get the same results. The baseball player who hit the big home run last year is physically not the same as time goes » Read more: Learning Our Lessons

I learned history in a traditional school program. We studied California history in the fourth grade and US history in the fifth grade and, in general, history was organized and presented by geography in expanding circles.

When I was taking courses in the history of Western Civilizations in college I found that I knew a lot of information about the various periods of history but I had no sense of the flow of events and civilizatio » Read more: Teaching History – Alternatives to Traditional Methods