History is everyone's concern because we are all shaped by it. To overlook this simple fact is to limit one's own vision to the narrow confines of personal experience in the present and to restrict the sense of future possibilities. We study history to illuminate civic choices. Command of local, national and international history reveals the context of specific issues. By bridging many disciplines, history provides a means of evaluating the perspectives drawn from the humanities and the social sciences that bear on current issues.
History illuminates the obscure and transforms confusing events into meaningful patterns.
Retold as history, the story of human existence takes on meaning for each of us. This page maintained by Sweet Briar College Public Relations.