If you’re like me and enjoy reading firsthand, eyewitness accounts from different time periods, let me offer you a few suggestions as to where to find some.
It’s important to read what people of the past themselves had to say about events they participated in, and in their own words.
Besides offering insights from “the worm’s eye view” (in contrast to the bigger picture seen from “the bird’s eye view”), firsthand accounts from distant time periods are free from the “presentism” too often found in modern histories.
Presentism is the practice of judging people of the past based solely on present day social standards and norms, which change.
