Making Today Easier for Future Historians

I was a History major in college. One of the main reasons I decided to get a degree in what was mostly vocationally useful only if I chose to turn around and then teach History, was a lifelong obsession with simply knowing “stuff.” I wanted to know why things happened, how they work, and what could possibly occur next.

Growing up, if I wanted to know something, my father, rather than just telling me the answer, would tell me to look it up. While I grew up relatively lower-class financially, we still had three sets of encyclopedias in our home. Those sets…