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Who here likes history?

Actually I never really cared about history until I took an art history class last semester.... then again, I think it was the art that was more appealing than the history part. :)
 
I minored in European History and took a course at the Sorbonne in Gothic and Renaissance Architecture and Art History, so I am a bit of a history freak, myself! Kings and Queens of Europe is one of my subjects, but I also love genealogy of the families of the nobility.
 
I'm more into the Greeks. Fitting, I guess!

Checked out Herodotus recently to use in class: since all the kids are
into "300," I had them read the original story; yes, they found "differences"
between it and the movie version.
 
Who was it that said "Those who forget the past are damned to repeat it"?

I really enjoyed History lessons in high school until our teacher got swapped around for a complete bully and he unfortunately wrecked it for me.
 
And what makes history so interesting?

Here is a quotation by Will Durant:
"It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it. "

:-)
 
HaraKiri said:
And what makes history so interesting?

Here is a quotation by Will Durant:
"It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it. "

:-)
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Good quote - and an excellent way of explaining my obsession with genealogy, both my own and that of others. Thank you.
 
I'm really into Ukrainian history (part Ukrainian), and European history in general. (I'm also half German, but the Ukrainian history interests me MUCH more).
 
I love ancient history, anything starting in the Roman period and going back from there. I also have a thing for Asian history.
 
i LOVE u.s. history, solely because i want to be a political science major and i think it's important to have a strong understanding of u.s. history.
 
I love to learn about "lost" kingdoms and civilizations.

Love to read about the Minoans and Byzantine Empire, Incas, Mayans, Old Ethiopian Kingdoms, Aquitaine, and Cambodia. And south Indian Kingdoms and the Indo-Greek Empires and Indus Valley Civilization. And how they influenced modern civilization and sometimes we don't even know since most people just want to know about the "winners"
 
I love history. Read it all the time and love to travel and explore sites, etc. The History Channel is my favorite too.:D
 
ZhuRong said:
I love Korean and pre-Qing Dynasty Chinese history (because China pretty much goes downhill after that for a while). Sucks that my current degree (programming) doesn't require any classes related to history, maybe my BA yes.
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I am extremely humbled when anyone refers to Chinese history, because that is such a long and eventful one that it makes American history look like a hiccup.
 
I'm a huge history nerd! I've been fascinated by it since I was a kid. I like all history, but I'm most interested in 20th century history. I know. Some of you will scoff at that being "real history."

But... 20th century history has everything to do with the current condition of our world. Almost everything we can now relate to was formed or forever altered in that century.

Think about how the world has changed since 1900!

All centuries are important because they were each steps on the road to where we are now. What fascinates me so much about the 20th century is that magnitude of change (not necessarily all advancement) that occurred between 1900 and now compared to 1800-1900.

The quote from ^^^ "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" is inexorably true. And there's no shortage of lessons from the 20th century that are altogether relevant to the current world. I find it shocking that political leaders seemed to have learned so little from mistakes made just in the 20th century.
 
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