WHY DOES HISTORY MATTER?   600W

History Matters, because with out our history, we wouldn’t know who we are, or where we came from. Our history is what defines us. Knowing where you came from can help you better understand where you are headed with your life.

In the video of the first lesson there are plenty of extremely interesting points as to why history really should matter to us. Richard White’s way of telling a story that the students can relate to, is very touching. Making the students understand how lucky they are, and how much they should appreciate their life style, can actually draw them into the history, and to make want to learn more about it. By making the age connection, they can relate to those soldiers who lost their lives, they can understand how young and inexperienced the soldiers were, when they were sent to war. Those students are just starting their lives at 18; when the Vietnam soldiers already lost theirs at 18.