History: On learning from and writing history

Beskrivning: Is historiography useful in any form today?
Each written history has its own viewpoint.
What is correct?
Is it the big men that make movements of history or the other way around?
Is the new Big Picture history the right approach?
Are those who don't learn from history condemned to repeat it?
Lots of questions but are there answers?

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Gruppdiskussion

Ämnen		meddelanden	Senaste meddelande
A Question to ponder ...And answer if you have a mind to.		9	LamSon, Igår 11:09pm
Your place in history.......		2	JFCooper, tisdag 6:28pm
Songs and History		11	Chris469, måndag 11:51am
History Books: New, General, etc.		36	wildbill, december 17
History, Vietnam, Afghanistan, W.Wilson, and America		3	LamSon, december 13
Is the American Empire in decline?		16	Urquhart, december 10
The Causes for the end of empires......		13	Urquhart, december 6
Truffle hunters or parachutists?		10	LamSon, december 4
The Iliad		22	EduardoT, december 3
Where members can introduce themselves....		24	fleela, december 2
Interview with an Ethnographic Historian		4	JFCooper, november 27
The Cause of WWI		17	pechmerle, november 26
On Pursuing MA or Phd Degrees in History		8	wyaryan, november 14
Thucydides		3	OldSarge, november 12
What we should do in Afghanistan, based on what we learned in Vietnam		4	LamSon, november 9
Essay Questions: How would you do?		4	TLCrawford, november 8
Revisiting Aaron Burr		3	sgtbigg, oktober 29
Yes we can, but do we learn from history...		4	Chris469, oktober 22
The Nobel peace prize		9	Urquhart, oktober 16
Learning history from fiction......		16	Kordo, oktober 11
Reality in Iraq		14	Urquhart, oktober 7
Tool Box for the Historian....		21	JFCooper, oktober 1
Dominoes Revisited		9	LamSon, september 28
A Discovery and A Re-think for the Dark Ages		10	walf6, september 26
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?		9	bfertig, september 25
Your favorite theory of history.....		1	Urquhart, september 24
Key History Books to Own		14	Essa, september 23
North American Indian History		29	TLCrawford, september 23
Which is your school of historiography?		29	Urquhart, september 21
The forgotten natives		28	Chris469, september 9
What the French revolution can teach America		5	LamSon, september 8
What is history and who are historians?		12	JFCooper, augusti 17
Tom Holland		12	Macbeth, augusti 13
Is religion a true reason for war?		21	dchaikin, augusti 9
Eyewitness to History		4	LamSon, juli 30
Is there a movie that helped you understand history better?		22	LamSon, juli 22
Quotations		32	walf6, juli 18
When a widely-accepted historical fact is called into question.		6	LamSon, juli 16
How much history writing can be trusted?		27	Patton610, juli 16
Incidents about which you never hear.....		18	Rood, juli 15
Heritage tourism - views welcome		14	TLCrawford, juli 15
Congratulations to Everyone!		16	Urquhart, juli 9
The reason I continue to read and study history is......		23	PkrImperatrix, juli 9
What Ifs		7	Chris469, juli 8
The right of a people to a homeland?		11	walf6, juli 6
Sex, Leadership, and History		11	walf6, juli 6
Cold War - When did it start?		8	jmnlman, juli 1
A very blunt question to almost all of you......		28	LamSon, juni 30
The absence of the Native American Indian		10	Urquhart, juni 27
History and Humor.....		3	Urquhart, juni 22
Dominoes		1	LamSon, juni 18
Won't you be my neighbor?		7	DavidX, juni 17
Your Authors: Male to Female ratio		11	deslni01, juni 17
Recent Reads in History: The Great and the Bad		27	wildbill, juni 16
Wikipedia		19	walf6, juni 13
Your top 3 books of history..		20	Urquhart, juni 11
On History Textbooks		6	a_radical_abacus, juni 11
American History- freedoms		4	bfertig, juni 10
What would an 'end of history' look like?		11	wildbill, juni 10
Native American History and Ethnic Cleansing		27	TLCrawford, juni 9
Alexander the Great and Afghanistan		8	walf6, juni 5
The Different Schools of Historiography: A Reference		2	keigu, juni 4
Is it fair to judge historical events by todays standards?		22	wildbill, maj 31
Commencement address - Dept. of Classics		3	Rood, maj 27
How do you read history?		19	Cynara, maj 20
What have you learned today?		7	JFCooper, maj 14
Hello :)		10	grahamhk, maj 13
China		22	Chris469, maj 12
Plagiarism		11	lquilter, maj 6
On Book TV on CSPAN-2 and other TV shows...		11	carmody, april 29
Women's History		10	Urquhart, april 26
Cliodynamics.....		13	LamSon, april 22
Santayana: Does history repeat? Can people learn?		13	Essa, april 20
The Manuscript Graphic Above		9	Essa, april 17
The Dark Ages		10	Makifat, april 17
Forks in the Road		5	LamSon, april 12
Does politial history repeat itself?		3	JFCooper, april 9
Is there any progress in history?		35	Mr_Wormwood, april 8
John Hope Franklin: 2 January 1915 – 25 March 2009		8	Essa, april 8
Does economic history show repetition?		5	Urquhart, april 8
Revisionism in History		12	Cynara, april 8
historiography: a few issues.		2	Urquhart, mars 27
Geography.....		2	zwoolard, mars 26