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The Skills History Teaches

As I’ve been working through History’s Hierarchy of Purpose, I’ve been thinking more deeply about all the skills that practicing history can teach us. As I continue to unpack that, I’ve come across a couple of articles that mention some of those skills. Fernande Raine discusses some of these skills in her Medium article, “Why History is Good for You [https://medium.com/@fernande/why-history-is-good-for-you-353d393776df].” I wholeheartedly agree with her assessment that history is cool, but that it suffers…

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