Answer:
This is a complex and simple question at the same time. If we look at it at the simple perspective, we see that a historian is like a story teller, simply telling what has happened in past years, and explaining the details about it.
But if we look at it more closely we see that historians have a certain way of teaching, which is finding the most informative way of telling the story, and trying to tell it in a way that everyone can understand and learn from. Story tellers however, are intent on telling the story to apeal to people, and make them interested in what he/she is saying. As a student, I know that historians don’t have that in mind when teaching, although I’ve heard my parents, or others that have told me wonderful stories, that they make it exiting, riveting if I will, to the point where I want to hear MORE, but I find myself hoping that we get a break, or something of that sort, surfing lectures of history.
Though I do feel that the way they portray things does have relation to story telling, as they are telling/lecturing about a certain thing that happened, and to be able to do that alone requires some skill they I think would tie in with storytelling. Being able to talk about long events and stories isn’t something that just happens to fall into your lap, you have to learn and master it, and a requirement of a sorry teller AND historian is that kind of skill. Overall they are similar, but still so unalike.
