Dear Humans,

The other day we were learning about another explorer’s search for the Northwest Passage and one of you asked the best question that a historian can ask: “How do we know what happened in the past?”

And the best answer is that they wrote it down. Sometimes they wrote it in bits and pieces, and they often wrote it in a different language, sometimes one that has been lost to time. But history remembers those people who write things down.

There are other ways–oral traditions and archaeological findings and historical re-enactments–but the written word is our most reliable connection to the past. Just as it will connect us to the future.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt