{"id":826,"date":"2017-12-18T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/?page_id=826"},"modified":"2017-12-20T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:35:48","slug":"whystudyhistory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/whystudyhistory\/","title":{"rendered":"WhyStudyHistory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Why Study History?<\/span><\/i><\/h1>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">Friedrich Hegel<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/history.ucdavis.edu\/undergraduate\/what-can-i-do-as-a-history-major\" target=\"_blank\">What Can I Do with a History Major<\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>George Anders, <i>You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a &#8220;Useless&#8221; Liberal Arts Education<\/i>\n   <\/li>\n<li>James Grossman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-grossman-history-major-in-decline-20160525-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;History isn&#8217;t a &#8216;useless&#8217; major.&#8221;<\/a> \n    <\/li>\n<li>Arthur M. Schlesinger, <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/33543.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Folly&#8217;s Antidote.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>James J. Shehan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historians.org\/perspectives\/issues\/2005\/0501\/0501pre1.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How Do We Learn from History.&#8221;<\/a>\n    <\/li>\n<li>Peter N. Sterns, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historians.org\/pubs\/free\/WhyStudyHistory.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Study History?&#8221;<\/a>\n    <\/li>\n<li>Randall Stross, <i>A Practical Education: Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees<\/i>\n     <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Study History? &#8220;But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.&#8221; Friedrich Hegel What Can I Do with a History Major George Anders, You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a &#8220;Useless&#8221; Liberal Arts Education James Grossman, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/whystudyhistory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhyStudyHistory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4046,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-826","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}