The Living of History In writing history or biography, you must remember that nothing was ever on a track. Things could have gone any way at any point. Nobody ever lived in the past, only in the present. Their own present. Just like us, they were alive and full of ambition, fear, hope, and all the emotions of life. And just like us, they didn't know how it would all turn out. The challenge is to get the reader beyond thinking that things had to be the way they turned out and to see the range of possibilities of how it could have been otherwise. - by David McCullough [source unknown] Home / Of General Interest