History's most overlooked value: its ability to influence the way we live
our lives and how we treat one another on a day-to-day basis. At its best,
history nurtures with us humility and gratitude. It encourages respect and
empathy. It fosters creativity and stimulates the imagination. It inspires
resilience. And it does so by illuminating the simple truth that, whether due to
some cosmic fluke or divine providence, it's an absolute miracle that any one of
us is alive today, walking around on this tiny sphere surrounded by an ocean of
space, and that we are, above everything else, all in this together.
Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History by Andrew
Carroll
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