History..........

History really is the telling of stories. Every type of history allows people to tell stories about the past. There is a wide variety of ways to tell stories but also the types of history such as military, economic, social, political, art, women's or gender, crime, among others.

So how do we tell the stories of history?

Where do we start?

A few things to consider:
1. What type of stories do you want to tell? Who's stories? For ex. the stories about WWII would vary depending on who's stories we discuss. A soldier would have a different perspective then a general in the army, to a family left in canada while one of it's son's is over in Europe in the war.
2. Location (where is the stories coming from) For ex. stories from Canada would be different then those from England or France during WWII.
3. Where are we getting these stories (source of material)
4. How we discuss the material?
5. What questions are we going to answer? Which answers are we looking for?
6. Our own values, morals, interpretations.
7. Type of history being studied. Look at WWII again, a military history would be very different then political or economic.