{"id":378,"date":"2015-02-19T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sawpublishing.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2015-09-13T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:39:04","slug":"developing-a-love-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawpublishing.com\/developing-a-love-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a Love of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_379\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sawpublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Old-Glory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-379\" class=\"wp-image-379 size-full\" title=\"The Birth of Old Glory - Edward Percy Moran\" src=\"http:\/\/sawpublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Old-Glory.jpg\" alt=\"Old Glory\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sawpublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Old-Glory.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sawpublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Old-Glory-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Birth of Old Glory &#8211; Edward Percy Moran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All through my high school years, and probably before that, when people asked me what my favorite subject was, I would say either literature or history.\u00a0 And it was history that was my good old standard when it came to favorite subjects.\u00a0 Literature was the newcomer vying for the honour.\u00a0 But I had loved history for a very\u00a0 long time.<\/p>\n<p>When people heard this answer, they had a tendency to be surprised.\u00a0 I expect that they were thinking of memorizing tables of dates, or dragging through long accounts of battles and legislature.\u00a0 Certainly, that kind of history was not my favorite subject.<\/p>\n<p>What I really loved was not the history I was taught out of text books.\u00a0 It was history that came out of stories, history that stands before your eyes at historical villages, history which has colour and flavour, and tells not the dry facts of <em>what happened when<\/em>, but <em>how<\/em> it happened, and to <em>whom<\/em> it happened, and when it can, <em>why<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded recently of the phrase <em>living history<\/em>.\u00a0 That is the kind of history I love.\u00a0 And the place where I have found it the most, and which has secured my loyalty to the standard of this unpopular subject, is in historical fiction.\u00a0 Historical fiction is one of the branches of the overarching category <em>living history<\/em>, and the books which comprise it make history live because they make their characters live.\u00a0 Facts and dates are very much like the everyday details I mentioned in a <a title=\"The Ideal Book, Part Three \u2013 Characters\" href=\"http:\/\/sawpublishing.com\/2015\/01\/22\/the-ideal-book-part-3-characters\/\">previous post<\/a>. \u00a0They are only important to us as they effect something we are interested in.<\/p>\n<p>As an author, I see this very distinctly in doing research.\u00a0 I have been studying the history of Europe in 1848-9 for a book which is still in the very early stages right now.\u00a0 Ordinarily, the highly political and revolutionary events which occupied that place at that time would not hold a lot of interest for me.\u00a0 But because I was setting a story which I already cared about against this backdrop, the events took on a whole new interest.<\/p>\n<p>So if you don\u2019t find history exciting, if you see it as the study of dates and names and old, musty details of the past; 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