It’s a Story!
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
It is my opinion that we turn young people off of history when we reduce it to a list of names and dates. Dry stuff, that. But history is at it’s heart a story. It’s about people, just like me and you. Motivated by ambition, love, avarice just as we are today. Plottings and intrigue, mrder and mystery, it’s all in there, and it’s all true. And just as your favorite novel is best digested with a cup of tea under a warm blanket, so too, is history.
Ditch the textbooks, and find books written by those with a love for the subject, and read those instead. An author with a passion or his subject can make the people of the past walk through your mind in living flesh!
