"Many history students have a fairly wide array of specialties to choose from. Besides basic skills, one thing that members of all history-related jobs have in common is that they recognize that most of the problems that now plague humanity did not appear in recent times. Rather, to one degree or another the ideas, beliefs, trends, and mistakes of the past contributed to the creation of todays world. And studying the mistakes of the past can potentially help people today to avoid repeating those errors"--.