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After reading Jeremy Popkin’s From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography, I have opened my eyes up to so much more and I now know that history involves much more than just absorbing information and memorizing it. The information may be right there in the text to absorb, but in his work, Popkin brings up various questions such as “what exactly led to the start of an event,” or “what pushed the people of the time period to want to do such a thing (Popkin 3.) I never thought it would be very necessary to look even deeper into these cases, however, I now realize how important it is in order to preserve knowledge from the past. Popkin made another reference comparing historical cases to a library, where each case is just filled with many viewpoints from different historians, knowing that there is a chance that this knowledge can carve out the future (Popkin 7.) Just because we heard a viewpoint from one historian does not mean that all other historians will agree nor will their ideas align. In @daisysolorio’s work reading Disaster: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis, she noted how there was a catastrophic event, and how all survivors stated that the disaster affected each individual differently. It is interesting to explore history through more than just one perspective, to get a more well-rounded view on a particular topic. In the part of the first chapter “Justifying the Study of the Past,” it is stated how “Creating and preserving knowledge from the past is important in order to teach rules of human behavior and guiding conduct (Popkin 16.) I am one of those people who believes that history tends to repeat itself; memorizing information is not nearly enough to know why something happened, but rather creating what happened and critically analyzing the sequence of events that led up to the final event itself.