History

Liliana Sapiel- blog post 12

Continuity and change, history is always changing, but always repeating itself. America’s history is always changing, but there are patterns in our history that just aren’t breaking. History is like a pendulum, it moves forward and swings one way, but it comes back to the same place it was. Of course history has progressed for the better, but there are patterns in our history that we repeat. For example reform, reform in America is about change but there have been multiple reform movements throughout history that have repeated the same reform movements, whether it be civil rights, women’s rights, or gay rights these reform movements keep occurring. The first reform era was the Antebellum reform period which focused on Abolition and the prohibition movement, following that era was the progressive era which focused on women rights, after that era was the Civil Rights movement. These Era’s all focus on the same issue in an effort to end them but they always repeat in history. When some radical ideas get introduced to society the pendulum swings far one way into those radical ideas but then the pendulum pulls back into old ways and continuity. History has a way of repeating its self, but it also has a way of learning and growing from each event that history repeats. History is like the saying “you learn from your mistakes”, but in this case its “you learn from your same mistakes”.