About This Lesson
All literary texts contain events or major actions that join together to form the larger story. The same is true for historical
texts; history itself is a long sequence of events—one thing happens, and then another, and so on. However, this doesn’t
mean that one event necessarily causes another. Historical events can be related in several different ways. By analyzing in
detail how a series of events in a text relate to one another, readers can gain context that is vital to their understanding
of history.
