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What is History?
Sounds like a silly question. Think about it. History is comprised of events, people, places, and the sources that tell us the story. Each and every event in history involved a place or multiple places, impacted people directly and indirectly, and took place in a certain moment in time. There are a lot of dots to connect, and we connect those dots. More importantly, we connect you to those dots, we connect you to history.
Connecting the Dots
We all know about the Holocaust. We have heard of Auschwitz. We read about it in books, we've seen it on TV. It was an event in history, a horrific one at that. More importantly it was an event that happened to real people. Real people died, and real people survived. All of them have a story to tell, a story that needs to be told. The battle of Gettysburg took place at a certain place and time. We know the famous names associated with the event, but what has often been ignored in history are all the people who made the event possible. We know about General Pickett's charge, but without the confederate soldiers who gave their lives for that charge, what would it be? Should the foot soldier be remembered like the generals? We think so. They are part of the story. Without their story, and unless we connect those dots, it is an incomplete book. WorldHistory allows you to connect people to people, people to events, and your ancestors to events.
Connecting YOU to History
I'd like to share a personal example. About my great great great grandfather and my GGGG grandfather. Both father and son fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Their names are John Pulsipher and David Pulsipher. They have a story. This account is given by the son of John Pulsipher:
"When the enemy, after firing Charleston and wending around under the smoke, and nearly surrounded that wing of their own army, when they saw but a small gap to retreat through which was then acontinally plowing the ground with balls from the shipping. But while they were going out my grandfather saw one of our men wounded and crawling away on his hands and knees. In the meantime a British soldier ran him through with a bayonet, being filled with indignation at such rank breach of the laws of all civillized nations he immediately stopped, amid scenes of death and carnage, loaded his gun and shot that man down before he left the ground and then obtained a safe retreat. I speak of this to let my posterity know that our ancestors were clothed with that steady unshaken determination in time of the most immanent dangers that are incident to human life."
I can learn about The Battle of Bunker Hill in school and on TV, but forever more, I am connected to that famous battle.
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