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History And Its Impact On History

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History is a course that contains a lot of fundamental information. It is a science that studies the past of the human race and the human civilizations, assists us to comprehend the present, so we have a better vision for the future. The History seeks to reconstitute the past event. For the reason, history has its objectives, methods. All the information of history is related to the time and space because the consideration of an historical event requires placing it in time and in a given space. By means of history, we understand and analyze the cultures of the past, and compare it with the present reality. In the same idea, history also help us to find solutions to some situations that had been lived in the past. History is being maintains intact for many generations through textbooks, oral sources (speeches, anecdotes, legends recording), Status.

Authors of textbooks have taken advantage of their position as writers to manipulate the histories of the past. They do so because of groups of people who are dominant. Those groups are the governments, authors, medias, scientists, and religious leaders. History teaches at schools are not relevant with the events that occurred in the past. Zinn and Loewen had brought light to everything that have teaching at school about our history. They gave more details about our ancestors and told the story form another point of view. Our textbooks do not provide student with an accurate detail about he past in contrary they keep students away

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