![]() It’s the subject of countless pop-culture products: movies like Back to the Future, television series like Netflix’s Dark, and book series like Outlander, just to name a few. Most entertainment media answer this question through the conceit of time travel. They’re just things wayward nouns stuck in some backwards line of time.īut what if you could unstick those objects from the firmament of time and play with them? History is, most simply, “events in the past.” Granted that broad a status, any events – no matter how large or small – fit into the concept of history. But it’s not until you’ve gone through the nine other definitions in that dictionary to find one that’s actually broad enough to capture the word in its plainest, most essential form. ![]() I start with the cliché because it’s the understanding most of us have of history. So I hope you’ll bear with me when I tell you that Merriam-Webster’s defines “history” as “a chronological record of significant events often including an explanation of their causes.” It’s beyond cliché to start an exploration of any topic by referring to the dictionary.
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