What is history? Looking for interviews children, teenagers, and adults.?

I'm suppose to be interviewing 3 people of different age group( children, teenagers, and an adult.) I would interview my parents, but unfortunately they're not around today. SO it would be nice if anyone would drop their thoughts and that would be great. Thank You!





P.S What is History to You?What is history? Looking for interviews children, teenagers, and adults.?
Everything from the moment it is said or happens. You go to get a knife with which to cut a banana, and once you actually grab it the beginning of the movement to do so is already in the past and can't be taken back. History is the past, immediate, near, distant, and ancient, and is always nipping at our heels.





Look at the tenses we use to refer to events. Said is the past tense of say, telling us that something was said in the past (example: JFK said he wanted the US to land a man on the moon by the end of the '60s). And it can be altered by adding adverbs and such to give an idea how far in history something was actually said when it's more recent than what is general considered history (example ';I just said that';). Adding the suffix -ed to certain verbs gives us their past tense (examples: baked, jumped, voted). Other verbs, such as say, have their own past tense without the addition of the suffix (examples: say - said, come - came, fling - flung, run - ran). Ago is always used to tell us something occurred in the past, usually with some kind of time frame being given before it (example; it occurred six weeks ago). Last gets used to refer to something that is now past (examples: last night, in the last five minutes, last week). Yesterday refers to the day before the current day.





That's just a few examples of things we use to refer to past events and times.





But academically speaking history is more dates, events, historical figures, and the way people lived. For example, I'm a bit of what folks would call a Civil War buff. Which of course means I'm intrested in the Civil War. I like to get all kinds of books on the war and surf the net for various sites on it. Now in school they typically teach about the battles and major figures. But what service does that do to how people lived? Over the past thirteen or fourteen years I've become more interested in this side of the war, particulary in what folks ate and soldiers commaridery. And more recently I've started getting into the celebrating of holidays during the war.





It's the personal side that is often ignored by most when it comes to history. Archeologists try to fill us in on this side as it's just as importnat as names and events. But the way history is taught this side is of less importance. You're much more apt to learn of it in college, but only if you study history then. And yet when you actually stop to think about it those important historical figures would have been nothing without the little people who get overlooked. Their lives and how they lived them are just as important to history as the events and important figures were apt to be taught about.What is history? Looking for interviews children, teenagers, and adults.?
History is the story, which may or may not be accurate, about the record, which also will contain inaccuracies and omissions.





Some would say that history is no more than a story, no more valid than fiction. But this cannot be completely true: we know at least some of the facts are accurate.





It is usually possible to come up with a reasonably accurate description of when and where something happened. Where the story becomes more elusive is when we attempt to answer how or why it happened.





Along with deliberate alteration of such information, the human memory both collectively and individually is shaped by many things in addition to plain forgetfulness: fear, hate, love, friendship - these all colour our version and interpretation of events, along with plain old mistakes. An illustration of this is readily available in any court case where several witnesses to the same event are called.





I find this true whether it is world history or family history. Those who do not enjoy history will scoff, when confronted with this reality, that, ';history is pointless then.'; whereas those who truly enjoy history will read a little more, look a little deeper for truth, facts, original documents and witnesses.





While history is never the ultimate truth about any event, ancient or recent, it is the lessons we can learn which are valuable: how did this civilization deal with that problem? How did these sort of people deal with that sort of government? Did it work? Why not?
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