History: Uses for Today

History is a broad subject. In fact, it takes up so much time, since the beginning of humanity until the present. Defined in Longman’s Dictionary, history is ‘all things that happened in the past, especially in the political, social, or economic development of a nation’ (Longman’s 498). History explains why are things the way they are today, as history adds specific events, inventions or ideas that make a transformation, major or minor. History is almost unlimited, but what it contributes to our present will never be forgotten once we truly know why the study of history is significant.
The foundation, or base of history, is a very long but significant time (Rabb 7). History is built from one hundred thousand years, when the first humans, our ancestors, were populating Africa, Asia and Europe (7). During these times, history itself is a ‘blurred, almost invisible mist’ (Fromkin 2). However, as time goes on, historians try to ‘penetrate the mist’ (2) for informat...