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In my life I have been asked numerous times by family members, friends, & acquaintances as to why I chose to teach history . It's in the past so it doesn't really matter anyway, right? Wrong. I chose to teach history because our past is what has shaped our present. We are where we are and who we are because of the events that occurred hundreds of years ago. We can learn from our past and work to build our future with the help of history. History is not dead, it is living. The men & women that we read about are alive on the pages of our books. The choices they made put us where we are today and the choices that we, as Americans make today will shape our future.