historical perspective is looking back at how a certain event affected history, or if one is doing something one can predict what kind of affect it will have on history. What was the historical perspective of inventing the automobile, HUGE. streets, gasoline dependence on arab countries, and all that, bridges for freeways and less need for horses, and buggies and it made huge changes. It basically is a cause and effect situation. Or, in looking back at President JFK , when I was 12 , I thought he was just wonderful, but now that I am a grown up and know about all the ugly immoral things he did, I can’t stand thinking about him