Here’s a post I wrote for Bethanne Strasser’s Through the Heart Shaped Glasses blog earlier this month. I thought some of you might appreciate it!
What draws us to history?
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Is it the romance of a different time from our own?
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Is it what history can show us about ourselves?
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How we’re different from or similar to others in the past?
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Does it show us links to the people we were, and how we will be in the future?
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Does it show us where we’ve diverged when people have made new beginnings?
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Do we hope it will give us hints about where to seek in the eternal quest for who we are and where we fit in to this world?