1. + T.O.K. History

2. + Why study history?

3. + Importance of history: “The first step to liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.” (Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

4. + How is history similar to science?

5. + How is history different from science?

6. + How certain can we be about historical truth?

7. + The role of perception, emotion and reason:

8. + Does history help us understand the present and predict the future?

9. + “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” (George Orwell, 1984)

10. + Why do accounts of the same historical events differ?

11. + Whose history do we study?