Author Description

A Journey Through History: Twelve Essays from Antiquity to the Modern Era takes the reader through time provoking engaging encounters with significant moments in history. Through the eons of Western Civilization there are countless discoveries, breakthroughs and defining moments. A Journey through History, Twelve Essays from Antiquity to the Modern Era selects twelve such moments and ponders their impact as considered by historians, researchers and thinkers.What we learn is that humanity continues to learn, grow and discern what it means to be human with all our strengths and limitations. History, as the highest form of the Social Sciences, can take such moments and freeze them in time for modern readers to consider their seemingly eternal influences. Historical study is not just the chronology of the past, but a doorway into the human mind, body and soul. While learning about our past, it carries important implications for modern humanity and its future.A Journey through History takes us from the Ancient Greeks through the Middle Ages and into the Age of the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the American Modern Era. The timeless question remains: will humanity use its experiences to continually evolve, or will our limitations rule our future?