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The way I thought about history was similar to Thucydides because he focuses more on the facts and the narratives of those who played key roles in his stories (Popkin 28-29). Pokin mentions that both Herodotus and Thucydides are important to modern history because without them the format of history would have been very different (Popkin 27). These two ancient historians tell history in two different ways but were able to coincide that history should be the story of the thoughts and deeds of beings without the intrusion of the gods to explain the events (Popkin 27-30). These two chapters in the book discussed how historical writing kept changing and developing over time depending on the time period or the events that were occurring but they in a sense still had similarities of the two ancient historians mentioned before.
I was reading the article “The Great Conflagration” which part of the narrative of Bessie Bradwell Helmer discusses the great fire of Chicago that burned the city down. There was an instance in this narrative that I recalled was very similar to our lectures on Monday and Wednesday when discussing the themes of environmental history. One theme that jumped out was the idea of natural versus unnatural. Bessie points out that another historian related to the topic of Chicago fire mentions “Nature had withheld her accustomed measure of prevention, and man had added to the peril by recklessness” which to me was a great example for that theme. @mvanderdussen was describing which is the whether the benefits that the city had in geographical features were “natural” or manipulated by those who wanted the land from the native people that previously resided there. My classmate discusses the benefits the city of Chicago had when being built but with those benefits and limited space had many failures. This helped further the discussion of the quote because nature has its limits and when pushed could be a cause of devasting consequence done by man.