Comments on: Why We Study History http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/09/10/why-we-study-history/ Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dale http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/09/10/why-we-study-history/comment-page-1/#comment-1291 Dale Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:10:01 +0000 http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/09/10/why-we-study-history/#comment-1291 Hi, Karen.... just wanted to thank you for commenting on my "Why We Study History" post. I plan to pick up the "history repeating itself" theme again soon, and when I do, I'll include what you said and extend the discussion a little. I saw a comment you wrote on Mark Stoneman's Clio and Me ... glad you are joining BlogCatalog and the history group Mark started. I've come across a lot of fascinating blogs on BlogCatalog, and am starting to "meet" some very nice and smart people, and look forward to seeing you there. Are you on (or planning to join) MyBlogLog? It's a little repetitious to be on both sometimes, but each one's a little different and I'll likely stick with the two (and just those two!) for a while. I've gotten a lot of good traffic from both, and MyBlogLog has nice views of my site statistics that are helping me figure out where people are coming from and what interests them. Thanks again for commenting, let me know when they have approved you on BlogCatalog (as Mark said, they can be a little slow, I think it was 2-3 days before I heard from them also). Bye! Dale Hi, Karen…. just wanted to thank you for commenting on my “Why We Study History” post. I plan to pick up the “history repeating itself” theme again soon, and when I do, I’ll include what you said and extend the discussion a little.

I saw a comment you wrote on Mark Stoneman’s Clio and Me … glad you are joining BlogCatalog and the history group Mark started. I’ve come across a lot of fascinating blogs on BlogCatalog, and am starting to “meet” some very nice and smart people, and look forward to seeing you there.

Are you on (or planning to join) MyBlogLog? It’s a little repetitious to be on both sometimes, but each one’s a little different and I’ll likely stick with the two (and just those two!) for a while. I’ve gotten a lot of good traffic from both, and MyBlogLog has nice views of my site statistics that are helping me figure out where people are coming from and what interests them.

Thanks again for commenting, let me know when they have approved you on BlogCatalog (as Mark said, they can be a little slow, I think it was 2-3 days before I heard from them also).

Bye!

Dale

]]> By: Karen Davis http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/09/10/why-we-study-history/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 Karen Davis Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:04:11 +0000 http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/09/10/why-we-study-history/#comment-1242 I think that history tends to repeat itself because human nature stays pretty much the same so there are the same forces in place. For me, studying history allows me to more fully understand human nature. The study of history might allow us to make fewer of the same mistakes but only if a large enough segment of the active population has the same perspective on it. I think you do see lessons learned across a broad sweep of time. For example, slavery, though it still exists and sometimes in horrifying forms, is considered absolutely wrong by a large portion of the "civilized" world. That is definitely a change from earlier times. I think that history tends to repeat itself because human nature stays pretty much the same so there are the same forces in place. For me, studying history allows me to more fully understand human nature. The study of history might allow us to make fewer of the same mistakes but only if a large enough segment of the active population has the same perspective on it. I think you do see lessons learned across a broad sweep of time. For example, slavery, though it still exists and sometimes in horrifying forms, is considered absolutely wrong by a large portion of the “civilized” world. That is definitely a change from earlier times.

]]> By: cooper http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/09/10/why-we-study-history/comment-page-1/#comment-1080 cooper Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:15:47 +0000 http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/09/10/why-we-study-history/#comment-1080 Yes, connections must be made outcomes must be studied. It is funny though, as it would seen if we truly used history correctly we would not repeat it so often. Instead I hear things like "history dictates that....this or that will happen". In fact there are very few things which history need dictate if used as the tool it truly is meant to be it would suggest not dictate. Yes, connections must be made outcomes must be studied.

It is funny though, as it would seen if we truly used history correctly we would not repeat it so often. Instead I hear things like “history dictates that….this or that will happen”. In fact there are very few things which history need dictate if used as the tool it truly is meant to be it would suggest not dictate.

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