#i suppose publishing old diaries and letters would make a sort of be meeting in the middle?

[bumbling-a-bee]

I think we underestimate fiction as a way to learn history. the textbooks are all interesting but only give so much for us to understand and relate with. To me, at least, it feels superficial.

But in fiction we learn who those people were like. We better understand their strengths and flaws. What they believed, trusted, and feared. We can relate to it.