Studying Hard Evidence

From our first day in the Rollins Archives, there is one thing that stuck out in my mind and that was this "the history we know is only what people have recorded". That got me thinking that all we know of the past is what people have bothered to write about, as well as artifacts from their time period. That is why I am enjoying going to the archives and studying actual documents from nearly 200 years ago, as ultimately history is all about the documents, such as the ones we are studying for the history engine, and artifacts that people wrote and made. Without these then we may have a very different view of our history.