This chapter is dedicated to explaining how history contributes to power and the social sciences in current times. The chapter begins with the connection between history and social science, how history collects and examines selected facts and events and explains what they mean. Perspective allows different views as to why and when events occur in history. To illustrate this idea the author uses the case of Michael Brown and how in the future every aspect of his case will be analyzed and how different arguments will arise. Historical interpretation and the American Experience focusses on American has evolved or devolved in comparison to its former leaders. It also focuses on the diiferent faces niposition of power and the sources from which
