History Is For The Birds

I just finished reading Will Durant’s The Reformation. At over 1,000 pages it was quite a read. Why did I bother? Who cares what a bunch of people did almost 600 years ago? What’s it got to do with the price of a new cell-phone? Nothing at all. Will Durant is my favorite historian. You can find more about him on Wikipedia if you want. I studied history at school and it was mainly names and dates and not much understanding about what the human race has been up to for its existence. Since then I’ve read other historical works, . . . → Read More: History Is For The Birds