Histories From My Heartland

Most traditional history is a mere collection of headlines of monumental events. The true history of a man women or family however is told in the innumerable daily events both large and small that collectively make a life. It is then the accumulation of these countless events occurring in an equally countless number of lives that ultimately create the true history of our world. Sadly these individual stories are often lost to the ages passing dimly away with their tellers as the succeeding generations march on. More histories should tell the tales of the incidents large and small of the everyday lives of the everyday people of the world. Histories From My Heartland tells the everyday stories of six generations of a Midwestern American family. The challenges presented to widowed pioneers mid-nineteenth century European immigrants post-Civil War laborers Depression-era businessmen and civil servants and baby boomer families are all preserved in tales lovingly drawn from family documents and oral histories. It is an uncommon record of a common American family. It is the kind of history that should be more often told so as to gain a better understanding of the true history of our world.