History serves important social functions by immortalizing people, ideas, places, or events deemed socially significant for positively impacting and changing communal life. It provides remembrance of the past and allows lessons to be learned from past mistakes or successes that can be applied to improve the present. While the past cannot be changed, understanding history enables society to build upon past achievements and right past wrongs to work towards a better future.

1. PAST IS PAST.
WHY DO WE
HAVE TO GO
BACK?
HISTORY

2. Will it make any
significant difference for
the present life if no
remembrance of
important social events
of the past is done at all?

3. HISTORY
(technical form) tackles the matter
of how past records are embodied
in historical narratives.
(narratives) factual or inferential
about:
Personalities
Ideas
Events
Places

4. acclaimed for their importance in
the sense of being:
Heroic
Extraordinary
Exemplary with respect to
achieving vital social goals and of
being pivotal, a turning point,
earthshaking, or golden in impact
with respect to solving perennial
social problems and paradoxes.

5. HISTORICAL PURPOSES OF NARRATIVES
Verification
Authentication
Analysis
Corroboration
Interpretation

6. VERIFICATION
Act of ascertaining the
truth of existing
records, origins,
occurrences, or sources
of data

7. AUTHENTICATION
Act of determining the
originality or genuineness of
documents, objects, or even
personalities by certain
criteria and supporting
materials

8. AUTHENTICATION
Requires the skill of analysis
in which understanding is
obtained by investigating the
elements of a whole in their
separate conditions

9. Evidences in terms of
artifacts, records, or
witnesses are examined when
presented as proof of truth
claims.
Once authenticated, the
artifacts or documents are
ready to be used for
corroboration purposes.

10. CORROBORATION
Act of reinforcing a
confirmation or
other proofs of a
given claim

11. For a brief conception of
the social functions of history,
HISTORY provides
remembrance/immortalize a
person, idea, place or event
that is considered socially
significant or that has changed
or raise the communal life. ***

12. In terms of the social aspects
of history, it is concerned with
the sense of sociality that starts
with the past with respect to an
event, a personality, an idea or a
place that deserves to be
remembered/immortalize due to
its beneficial and enduring
impact on the community.

13. CONCLUSION
In short, ideas in the past
can be applied in the
present. If you made a
mistake in the past, you
can make it right in the
present for better results.

14. CONCLUSION
History started it all.
Without all the things in
the past, we will never be
what we are today and we
will never experience the
success we have right now.

15. CONCLUSION
“We are what we are today
because you, our elders
(past/history), have made
us this way.”
~from “Are We Stupid”