Do you like History?

I agree, history can be a lot of fun, but some teachers make it less so and make it so you have to memorize lots of stuff. I love to look at really old stuff, but even more modern stuff is fun to analyze as to how things were brought about and what if this or that step hadn't been taken, what would've happened? Just a suggestion since you are new (this is a great discussion by the way) but if you then reply to people that respond to it, it will help you earn more - won't add to your numbers, but will help the earning side.

i started liking history at an early age and still love it. in fact, i seldom read fiction as i am always reading about events in history. what are your favourite events to read about? mine are the early 20th century (including ww1) as well as the American civil war (i am Canadian) and the history of the 1960s in the US. my favourite show ever is History Detectives on PBS!

I think History is very important and can be fun and interesting. I worked with a teacher who taught History from different points of view. One year he taught the American Revolution from the British point of view. Another year he taught it as one part of a world conflict. We have to understand what happened in the past to understand what is happening now and why it is happening. If we don't learn from the past we are bound to fail.

History was one of my favorite subjects at school and it led on to an interest in Archaeology in which I spent nearly 20 years of my working life. Above all, history and archaeology is about people and if teachers don't understand that and simply concentrate on lists of names, events and dates and call that teaching history, then they deserve to have the entire class fall asleep on them. History is still one of my faviorite subjects and I can read a history book as if it where a novel because I can relate the events to the real people who took part in them. Needless to say, historical novels are also some of my favorite reading though I'm not to happy about Hollywood historical films, they rarely seem to get the historical details right and it's sad that many people, having seen a Hollywood historical, then think that was the way that it really happened

I dont like that subject. There are so many things to memorize not just dates, people and places but also the happenings during those times. Argh! I am so glad I am a graduate student already, I dont have to take that subject anymore. lol

i really do not like history.According to me what is need of memorizing those dates,which Of course,do not have any relevance to our real life.If needed we can surely look at the books for the dates.I never think history to be fun.

Hallo....I didn't like this subject " History" when at school times. Too many things had to be memorised....the year,the name,the place,etc.....Although I really keen to know about what happened long long time ago but it made me dizzy everytime....But now I have more relaxing way, I enjoy watching historical movie/ film like " Chinese Three Kingdoms" , I think it 's very attracted me. And also games based on this history...... is very fun!