globalized economy and its easy flows of capital and labor have destabilized people’s lives, stoking opposition to the globalized world and to the elites assumed to be running it
This showed me how changes in the economy affect peoples political opinions and how they view the government.
humans are changing, overwhelming, or displacing other global processes of nature as well, on scales never before seen in human history.
This shows us that not just things humans cause affect us, they affect the planet as well for decades to come.
rise and fall of fascism and communism, the explosive growth of the human population, or the women’s movement
Historians perspectives change over time. Something that happened 50 years ago that was super important at the time, might not be as important today.
History—the narratives that historians write—is relevant to us because historians are influenced in their selection of what and how to write about the past by their engagement with issues and problems that confront us today.
This shows history is more than just the past, anything that happens can alter how historians view and publish things.