This chapter was very interesting in taking note how history was broken down and recorded.\u00a0 What stood out to me the most was the progress that was made within history when people came together to change or rebel against something.\u00a0 In the beginning of the chapter, Herder stated how people are identified by their cultural traditions which makes them unique, all leading up to collective actions under one group.\u00a0 Herder uses the storm of the Bastille in the French Revolution as an example, where collective actions of individuals led to the emergence of a new government in France (Popkin 72.)\u00a0 Looking back at the time, surely a lot of people living in France came from different backgrounds with their unique identities, but the fact that all of them decided to step up and fight goes to show that people are willing to put aside their differences in order to improve their ways of living, especially under a strict government; a new appreciation of history is developed through times of revolution and uprising of the people (Popkins 72.)\u00a0 It seems when people put themselves in tough and disastrous situations, there then tends to be benefits in the long-run.\u00a0 I like in @mvanderdussen\u2019s work how the author notes Galveston\u2019s people coming together deciding to decline electing officials to the Deep Water Committee.\u00a0 He also noted how he personally would have wanted to put it all to a vote, but in the end it did not matter since it was a collective decision by the people.\u00a0 I can now see that history can be identified by the actions of people within society. \u00a0Even though conflict may be inevitable, it is a key value in the development and understanding of history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This chapter was very interesting in taking note how history was broken down and recorded.\u00a0 What stood out to me the most was the progress that was made within history when people came together to change or rebel against something.\u00a0 In the beginning of the chapter, Herder stated how people are identified by their cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}