William Lund once said, “We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future.” With this remark, people need to study the past, which is the way people can understand others and themselves. Each individual makes up what it is the past: everyone around us is the sum of all events-good, bad, or indifferent-that happened to us. This idea guides our actions in the present and the future. How do people study and learn history? According to Arthur Marwick, history should be a kind of science “supported by evidence and based on dispassionate analysis[telling] it, as nearly as human can, as it was” (Marwick 20-22). Convincingly, Marwick’s claim that history is a science showing us what happened in the past (by collected facts and analysis through variety of sources), but how can we understand “non-facts” in the past? There are many ways that we can understand facts. However, understanding the non-facts-emotions, feelings-are difficult because there are limited sources that exemplify non-facts thoroughly. Historians teach us how to understand the past through analyzing facts, which can prevent us from making the same mistakes in the future. However, for individuals, it is easier to understand the past through non-facts. By approaching the events from different perspectives-through various genres-and supplying different kinds of information, individuals can have a better understanding of emotional aspect of the past. Gathering and analyzing evidence to write about history is difficult; however, understanding a history through approaching the events from many angles, especially through various genres makes easier to understand history. To understand how history was formed, people need to understand what genre is. So what exactly is a genre in understanding history? Genre is a French term that was derived from the Latin words genus, generis, meaning “type,” “sort,” or “kind.” Genre often designates the literary type into which works are classified according to what they have in common: in their formal structures or in their treatment of subject matter, or both (Brooklyn College). Authors, readers, and those in literary circles use the term “genre” to classify the different modes of expression used in individual works of literature (Brooklyn College). Looking at different types of genres allows people to understand what history is and how it has designed as it is. Specifically, the 1960s was the era of oppression. By using different genres, one can gain a better understanding of the times. Of all different kinds of genres, “new journalism” (a genre characterized by effective journalistic use of testimony and documentary), a film directed in a certain time period, and a story of lived experience of an author combine together to make history the way it is. Massacre in Mexico by Elena Poniatowska is a book that shows fear of uncertainty and panic caused by terror through listing various testimonies from people in Mexcio in 1968 with photographs. Another book by Peter Sís, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain describes the author’s personal experience living under the communist power and exemplifies how censorship affected the artist himself and his sense of freedom of expression. The Graduate, a film directed by Mike Nichols shows us how oppression of authority can affect the main character, Benjamin Braddock, which makes him unsure of how to live his life. By looking at different types of genres, people can achieve a closer look at the history. On October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco of Mexico City, there was a massacre called Tlatelolco massacre. The massacre occurred just 10 days before the opening of the 1968 Olympic in Mexico City. This event occurred under the government, which used its forces to suppress political opposition. Mexican president at that time, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, wanted to represent the country positively to the world, but he struggled to maintain the peace because of many on