Four experiences

Our colonial differences

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I confess to being a history lover. I loved it in school and I still rarely leave a book unfinished even if I don’t find it the most stimulating topic. I am not big on historical fiction, though I do make occasional exceptions. I just figure there are so many things I can learn that I get from history, especially when engagingly written.

History, we say, never repeats but it rhymes or echoes or something. I think it provides us clues to rethinking the obvious and starting to answer my favorites, the ‘why’ questions.

I believe Heather Cox Richardson, a Boston College Professor of History, is the single most read individual on Substack with her column, ‘Letters from an American’. She