Learning History | History Education | Historical Oregon

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]