I Love History and Books about History

I love history, mostly U.S. history.  I love it because the people in the past were interesting.  They were brave back then because they had to fight for their beliefs and causes.  History is kind of like a story.  I especially like to learn about World War II, the Cold War and early American history.

I have read several books about history and historical fiction novels.  I just finished reading “Blood on the River”, about Jamestown in the early seventeenth century.  My sixth grade social studies teacher read “The Diary of William Thomas Edison” to us, which took place prior to the Revolutionary War in Boston.  I also listened to “Unbroken”, a true story about two airmen captured (and tortured) by the Japanese during World War II.  I would like to read another book about World War II, but World War I does not seem very interesting to me.

I learned some new things reading history, like how the word “wow” comes the Algonquian word “waugh”.  I also learned that Europeans made up lies that Carib Indians (who lived in the Caribbean islands) were cannibals as an excuse to treat them brutally and take their land.  No one  knows the whole story of history because no one has lived forever.

Do you like history? If so, why?