Biographies and Autobiographies

Reading “The Shoemaker And  The Tea Party” it is evident that history can only at times be only what one can remember or what one might think is important.  Hewes remembered more when Hawkes took him on a field trip to reminisce and then asked pointed questions about the past opposed to just trying to recall memories. There are many accounts in this book that the writer knows they’re accurate accounts.  “This was Hewes’s story, via Hawkes.  Thatcher, who knew a good deal more about the Tea Party from other sources, accepted it in its essentials as an accurate account.”

History is always living and breathing.  People are always finding new primary sources such as:  documents, pictures, and people whom may never been considered before like Hewes.