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The second reason history is important is that the past causes the present. History is inescapable because the present becomes the past. ["The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction." -Penelope Lively][1] By studying history, we can learn why something is happening today.
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Origins Manual Page 1
http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/why_history_matters.html