What is the point of studying history as a subject?

by GancioTheRanter

If history is just a collection of cause and effect reactions with no overlapping grand theory (at least I think It Is, I May be wrong) what is the point of studying history as an isolated subject? What do historians want to accomplish? Am I looking at this in the wrong way?

DanKensington

Am I looking at this in the wrong way?

In a sense, yes. If anyone would like to put in their own thoughts, please go ahead and do so. For myself, I find my thoughts better articulated previously. There's two different ways you can take this, see, as these previous threads will show: