At the school I went to for undergrad, when I pulled from my reserve of ex-writing major pretentiousness at department meetings and went on about how history is really about people, it's stories, it's the whole big narrative of everything that's come before us instead of the stupid little trivia they teach in primary/secondary education, most everyone would nod their heads and say yes, that was Very Deep. But then, I was a huge snob while I was in undergrad and barely talked to anyone outside the professor's-favorites clique I ran with, so people may have objected to the study of people as part of history and I just sneered at them and forgot about it.