Sep 6, 2016
When you study history, you’re not just studying the history of, for example, colonial America. You’ll learn a great deal about the specifics of colonial America in such a class, of course, but you’ll also learn about the role of economics in the establishment of human societies and about how class and racial divisions can either weaken the stability of a government or be used to shore it up.
Heather Cox Richardson, “Richardson's Rules of Order, Part I: Why Study History?” The Historical Society Blog, March 20, 2009.