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LIVING HISTORYPerhaps way back when you were in school, history only meant to you the memorization of dates. Well, yes, when things happened has significance, but the real thing to be learned from history it that it is about real people, just like you and me, trying to survive, trying to give their children more than they had. All the vices and virtues of the human species told through the voices of those who lived wherever, whenever.
Our collective history is all around us.
It is in the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the houses we live in.
But it is so much more than that.
It is why we think the way we do, why we act the we do.
It is the basis for our culture; it is the basis for civilization itself.
If we do not understand it, if we do not seek it out, then we cannot make the decisions we
need to in our daily lives.
The world is in tumult today. We need to understand the roots of all the conflicts,
concerns, and needs.
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