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HISTORY HOT SPOTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
—Oscar Wilde
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It has been said we study history to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. Others claim
history gives us a context to understand the present, that it gives us an identity, a moral com-
pass. While all those things might be true, the reason people study history with HistoryAmer-
ica Tours, a company that has been giving riveting history tours since 1991, is because it's so
much fun. Not to mention, you will be learning from some very fascinating people.
On a past HistoryAmerica tour called “Six Seconds in Dallas,” for example, the assas-
sination of JFK was explored by the FBI agent who coordinated the investigation, a reporter
who covered it for the
Dallas News,
a police detective who questioned Lee Harvey Oswald
and witnessed his shooting by Jack Ruby, an employee for the Texas School Book Deposit-
ory who gave Oswald a ride to work that fateful morning, and the Yale-educated author who
wrote the classic reference work about the case. On a different tour, Jim McPherson, a profess-
or of American history at Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era,
led guests around the battlefields of Gettysburg
and Antietam, providing insider information on these battlegrounds that changed the course of
American history.
HistoryAmerica Tours has a knack for finding the absolute best historian guides, as they
call the experts, scholars, and authors who lead their tours. And it's not just the Pulitzer Pr-
izes and Ivy League credentials that make them so special. It's their unique ability to breathe
life into a particular slice of historical pie. HistoryAmerica's historian guides are so engaging,
so riveting, that many of the company's customers have found something in common with
their junior high granddaughters, at least the ones who follow the latest boy bands. Like film
buffs who count the days until the next Scorsese film or the next Woody Allen offering, His-
toryAmerica's devoted fans end up hopelessly smitten, following their historian guides around
like paparazzi.
