The show explores the causes that drove historical events and takes an in-depth look into the backgrounds of the people who made American and world history. David Cook, the host of History House, is a History professor who earned his Master's Degree at Boston College. David specializes in modern European intellectual history, and hopes the show will spark interest in what others often perceive as boring. Everything around you has a history, and my goal is to explain it in an interesting way, he says. I want to get beyond the stereotype that it's just names and dates.
History can help inform viewers in lots of ways.
It's a road map that can help chart their course. His various sourcebooks include some of the largest collections of subject specific online textual sources. Sometimes a ketubbah provides the only sure evidence for the existence of a Jewish community. And, inasmuch as the ketubbah is a legal document in every regard, financial agreements included, it also offers historical evidence of the Jews socio-economic status in various times and places. It is intended for use in U.S. and Russian schools and libraries and by the general public in both countries.