Throughout this course a major theme has been not learning about history, but ‘doing’ it. At the beginning of the semester, I wasn’t quite sure what ‘doing’ history was. I always thought history was a class where you sat in your chair and took notes while the instructor gave you lectures on what happens in certain periods of time. This was what we did in high school for the most part. At the beginning of the semester, this is what I thought history was and how you did it:
History is the study of the past and analyzing the way people react, think and work in certain situations. You 'do' history by reading and studying different aspects of the past. Whether these aspects are events, people or ways of life. By analyzing, you can learn a lot about history.