The value of studying history is it gives you, well, history, background, and perspective to understand current politics and events. Timothy Snyder, Yale Professor of history, explains it this way.
But if we deprive ourselves of history, everything is a surprise: 9/11, the financial crisis, the storming of the Capitol, the invasion of Ukraine. When we are shocked out of the everyday but have no history, we grope for reference points, and become vulnerable to people who give us easy answers. The past then becomes a realm of myth, in which those with power generate narratives most convenient to themselves.
-From the WaPost
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