History

Olivia Kamgang

Professor Bell

History 1302-84490

05/25/14

So call History

Since I started taking a history class, I have never been asked what history was so I never really thought deeply about it. We all know the surface definition of what History is, but is that really history? Through this past few assignments, I have learned tremendous things on American history. All of it was quite surprising but yet interesting and I always had the will to learn more on each assignment.

We all have quite the same definition of what History is but I think it’s more than that. History is what had happened before, but everything that happened before is not necessary History. I think History is important event that happened for a purpose that had been recorded. History is the gathering of all the important moments that happen in nations. Even though it is sometimes embellish by book authors, it is something that help us move forward. History is the knowledge of the human past. History has change for the past years. It’s a narrative of cultural and natural phenomena. I think of it like, if it’s written down, then it’s history. History has change into made up stories that people just wants us to believe. Things would be different if we were actually told the truth of what really happen

History is the exploration of the past that helps us to glimpse where we came from and where we are going. Making us know more about the beautiful and rich country we have the happiness of belonging to, it prepares us to build our future together. We study history to know more about what our ancestors life and also to gain knowledge or account of events from our past worthy to be reported; Following the same events, the future of human societies; the science that deals with the past of human societies. How do I learn history if all that is told to me are lies? We have been lie to out whole life especially, the story about Christopher Columbus and the American Indians. What I had the...