So, I decided to forgo my normal doom-and-gloom post for right now. How do people think history should be studied? The class I'm taking is focusing on different methods, and I just read that apparently there's 3 main streams of historical thought.
1-archiving, researching, what we are learning/learned to do in the university
2-a more romantic, nation-based, almost patriotic history
3-everything else under the sun that can be made abstract one way or other
As far as I'm concerned, generally people will take a more romantic view of history because people can be extremely romantic in one thing or other (even me). But you really can't study history from just one of those streams, so there's no real right way to study it. ??? Any thoughts???
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"-They Might Be Giants
