Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 3, Lesson 3: Why Study History? (pp. 70-73)
I. Understanding Other People
B. By studying people's pasts, we understand why they did the things they did.
II. Understanding Your World
B. By studying what they know about similar past events, historians can better understand what is happening now.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. People living in the past are a lot like people today.
A. When a current event occurs, historians gather and evaluate evidence they find.
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