The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.
I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.