Welcome to the wonderful domain of history!
It is an exciting place to learn about people and their stories, events, and ideas that shape our lives today!
Together, we will explore the world!
It is an exciting place to learn about people and their stories, events, and ideas that shape our lives today!
Together, we will explore the world!
The aim of the historian, then, is to know the elements of the present by understanding what came into the present from the past, for the present is simply the developing past. . .The goal of the historian is the living present. (Frederick Jackson Turner)
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only remember that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner. . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect men and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth. (W.E.B. Du Bois)