Focus in History

focus in history:

examining history and its records often surprises us, first the different emphasis in life in the past. from the words used we imagine an altogether alternative world and we become familiar with what those in the past thought about, the large movements, invention and then social concerns.

there are greater themes in history, what obsessed people, be it machines and tools, clothes, or even social progress in the sense that different groups engaged for the first time. to study the greater theme should not exclude consideration of all others, though perhaps what really happened was that life was a circus around the major activity of the time.

there is in people a tendency to be caught up with group interest such that times in the past seem biased and unbalanced now.

CLEARCHARGE