A Letter for
Young Historians

Dear Young Historians,

Recently I received a very thoughtful letter in the mail from one of our readers asking why women aren’t usually mentioned in history. I thought this was such a great question!

You see, the thing about history is that it is always changing, yet it also remains the same. It’s the same in the sense that historians may know how an event took place, but they may not know about all of the different people who played an important role in that event.
But it’s also changing because, as we gather more information, new people come into the picture, which sometimes changes the way we see an event.

Oftentimes women and people of color were excluded from the historical record, but as historians make new discoveries, they find more and more that women played an important role in history (just like the women in the Sealed Knot in Issue 6).

History is fun to study because our knowledge of past events is always changing based on new discoveries. By continuing your study of history, you are shaping history in this very moment by changing your views on how certain events took place. So keep it up, young historians! Together, we can change the world!
Cheers,

Editor-In-Chief