tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post8839797947206373073..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: When Do We Forget?Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-63954847595182460632013-01-10T18:04:03.078-05:002013-01-10T18:04:03.078-05:00I read somewhere once that people only have the pe...I read somewhere once that people only have the perspective of time for things they remember from their own life. So if it happened before they were born, it is equally remote. JFK's assassination and Caesar's are equidistant from the perspective of a student today. Or so the argument went. I'm not sure how much I agree with that, but it did make me rethink how to teach things I remember but my students don't.hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-87477566788057124372013-01-07T09:26:12.887-05:002013-01-07T09:26:12.887-05:00Thank God we forget some things--we have so much t...Thank God we forget some things--we have so much to remember. But, a tiny bit of what you seem to be saying is also that perhaps historians get to decide what people remember by influencing what names/events are included in textbooks. I'm thinking of your mention of Henry Ford here... <br /><br />We get to provide a little bit of the perspective when people say "we'll never forget this" or "remember such and such!" as a slogan for justifying things like passing reactionary laws or targeting certain groups as enemies. We get to know that most of these things won't be remembered unless we include them in the texts or continue to write good books about them. And that should give us some pause.<br /><br />So many people think "forgetting" is a tragedy. I'm not sure it is....Lisa Clark Dillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155783885263417225noreply@blogger.com