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What important insights about history can we obtain from reading books set in a specific time and place, for example, during the period of westward expansion?
 
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What periods of history are popular settings in historical fiction today?
 
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Reply #1 on: Sep 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Themes of loneliness, hardship, and acceptance of what life brings are threaded through many excellent novels about the pioneers and their struggle to tame a wild land.

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Prehistoric and Ancient Times, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance and the Age of Exploration, Colonial through Post-Revolutionary War Times, and Westward Expansion and the Civil War.


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