Why are there misconceptions in history?
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1. “History is the same as ‘the past.'”
It can be difficult to break this misconception, but a way to start is to ask your students to take a moment to think about everything that is happening around them; their internal thoughts and external choices, and their immediate surroundings. Now ask them to imagine the same for all the people currently alive; then the exchanges of all those people—every economic and social transaction—all the complex interactions and reactions occurring at that single second. Then ask them how future historians will write the history of this very moment: what will they choose to focus on? Ignore? How will they know and interpret this moment?
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