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    Personal Statement - Tufts History

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    The document discusses how studying history provides tools to analyze and explain problems in the past to understand problems in the present and future. It also discusses how history helps appreciate other cultures and traditions while recognizing them as products of their time and place. The author wishes to enroll in Tufts University's history graduate program to gain a better understanding of history in its various facets.

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    The document discusses how studying history provides tools to analyze and explain problems in the past to understand problems in the present and future. It also discusses how history helps appreciate other cultures and traditions while recognizing them as products of their time and place. The author wishes to enroll in Tufts University's history graduate program to gain a better understanding of history in its various facets.

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    The document discusses how studying history provides tools to analyze and explain problems in the past to understand problems in the present and future. It also discusses how history helps appreciate other cultures and traditions while recognizing them as products of their time and place. The author wishes to enroll in Tufts University's history graduate program to gain a better understanding of history in its various facets.

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    Personal Statement

    To study history is to study change: historians are experts in examining and

    interpreting human identities and transformations of societies and civilizations over

    time. They use a range of methods and analytical tools to answer questions about the

    past and to reconstruct the diversity of past human experience: how profoundly people

    have differed in their ideas, institutions, and cultural practices; how widely their

    experiences have varied by time and place, and the ways they have struggled while

    inhabiting a shared world.

    2. Because history gives us the tools to analyse and explain problems in the past, it

    positions us to see patterns that might otherwise be invisible in the present – thus

    providing a crucial perspective for understanding (and solving) current and future

    problems. For example, a course on the history of public health might emphasize how

    environmental pollution disproportionately affects less affluent communities – a major

    factor in the Flint water crisis. Understanding immigration patterns may provide crucial

    background for addressing ongoing racial or cultural tensions.

    3. Studying the diversity of human experience helps us appreciate cultures, ideas,

    and traditions that are not our own – and to recognize them as meaningful products of

    specific times and places. History helps us realize how different our lived experience

    is from that of our ancestors, yet how similar we are in our goals and values.

    4. I wish to get enrolled in the Tufts University to get a better understanding about

    History and its various facets. Tufts University is renowned for its Graduate School of
    Arts and pursuing MA (History) would give me a better perspective in the

    understanding of Historical aspects be it ancient, medieval or contemporary.

    5. Imagine asking a question about the past, assembling a set of clues through

    documents, artifacts, or other sources, and then piecing those clues together to tell a

    story that answers your question and tells you something unexpected about a different

    time and place. That is doing history. Everything we do, everything we use, everything

    else we study is the product of a complex set of causes, ideas, and practices. Even

    the material we learn in other courses has important historical elements – whether

    because our understanding of a topic changed over time or because the discipline

    takes a historical perspective.

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