I started to study history back in the 4th grade. I remember getting a workbook that was all about the history of Long Island, specifically Miller Place. I learned about Henry Hudson and the Native Americans. I learned very basic facts and nothing into depth. That year I also learned about the revolutionary war and we even put on a little play. The play was like a baseball game. It was the British against the Thirteen Colonies. The players in the game were real generals and leaders in the revolutionary war. I learned a lot about the people in the Revolutionary war and how they impacted it. I played Marquis de Lafayette and I learned that he was French and came and helped the colonists. Later I learned that to commemorate him, there is a statue in Washington D.C. of him in a square where there are statues of other foreigner

Personally I would define history as any event that has happened in the past. I don’t think it is necessary for it to be written because there is such thing as oral history. Oral history is the telling of past events by word of mouth. As you travel back and back in time history was mostly oral until you get to the 1700’s. That was when newspapers were big in print and books were getting published. That was when they could put history on paper very easily. Also common campfire stories can be sort of oral history because some of them are based on real events.

For Americans I think it is especially important to study the Land Bridge theory and all about Native Americans so you know where your roots probably date back. It is also important to study how all the explorers found and colonized this area so it can become what it is today. The Revolutionary times are also important to study because it was the time that the United States Of America were created. You learn about all the troubles that people went through to get America to be the best it can be. Then you should also study about the “ Era Of Good Feelings” so you can see how it was in the good time in America a long time ago. You should also defiantly study about the civil war, because it almost tore the country apart forever. That was the war where the most Americans died. That was because Americans were fighting Americans. Then next to study would be the Great Depression. You should study that because so you can see what America was like in economically rough times. Then you should cover World War one and World War two because they were two wars that affected almost the whole world. Next you should study the Persian Gulf War and how that ties in to the war with Iraq and the war against terrorism.

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