"History never looks like history when you are living it." ~ John W. Gardiner
Isn't that a spectacular way to think of history? History becomes infinitely more engaging when one dispels the ancient myth that all history is is dates--and not even the enjoyable sort, but useless, inane numbers on pieces of paper--and considers the lives of the people who lived those dates.
No matter what era you choose to research, the people within lived lives. They laughed, they cried, they loved and had their hearts broken. They were excited. They were bored. They made mistakes. Trapped behind their stoic expressions in vintage photographs, our ancestors have stories to tell us. Do you look for the story behind the picture?
