Lars D.H. Hedbor
I try to find stories that examine familiar events from unfamiliar points of view.
What did the American Revolution look like to a member of the Skarure tribe? To a Loyalist refugee in Canada? To a French trooper with Rochambeau's expedition to Yorktown? A Spanish colonist along the Gulf Coast? A pacifist Quaker in war-torn Trenton? An ordinary farmer in Vermont or South-Carolina? A natural philosopher chasing a solar eclipse?
These questions enable me to explore how the daily, seemingly inconsequential choices made by ordinary people, whose names are largely lost to history, helped to shape the events that we do remember from the past.
More importantly, I hope to show my readers how their own daily choices, whether or not they feel as though they have influence in our world, can help to shape our own future.
What did the American Revolution look like to a member of the Skarure tribe? To a Loyalist refugee in Canada? To a French trooper with Rochambeau's expedition to Yorktown? A Spanish colonist along the Gulf Coast? A pacifist Quaker in war-torn Trenton? An ordinary farmer in Vermont or South-Carolina? A natural philosopher chasing a solar eclipse?
These questions enable me to explore how the daily, seemingly inconsequential choices made by ordinary people, whose names are largely lost to history, helped to shape the events that we do remember from the past.
More importantly, I hope to show my readers how their own daily choices, whether or not they feel as though they have influence in our world, can help to shape our own future.
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