Kamensa, Fahmida A. 08/30/23
BSN 1E
Why is it important to study history?
●According to Peter N. Stearns, history is important because it helps us in different ways.
First, History helps us understand people and society and history helps us understand
change and how the society we live in came to be, which means that studying history can
help us understand our people and our society. History is data that contains all the
happenings in our past, including the changes in our society. If we don’t know the
behavior of our previous people and society how can we know if we as a people
behaved? It helps us understand how our society functions. By studying our past, we can
figure out how our society made several disciplines that attempt to understand society.
This is also one of the reasons why we can learn how our society Came to be. Without
learning about history, we have no idea about our past which ultimately means that
without our past, the origin of our society will become a mystery. Second, history
contributes to our own lives, and our moral understanding, and provides identity.
Learning history is not only important in our society but is also important in our own
lives. It creates another perspective on human life. Learning about the lives of the past or
the “pastness of a past” gives us excitement and thrill and ultimately, it can also allow us
to learn from it. Because history talks about the lives of distant ages, it also talks about
their hardships in life and how they handled them. This challenges our moral sense, and
this helps us hone it through the difficulties faced by another individual. Historians made
history that helps us build our courage and strength and provides lessons in our lives. In
terms of identity, history does not only talk about the history of the society and people,
but it also talks about the history of our family, This data from the past provides
knowledge on how our families and group became united, including our ethnicity, by
learning how our families began, this helps us in learning about our identity.
