History is Alive: A Guest Post by Sharon McMahon
Best known as America’s Government Teacher on her socials, longtime high school government and law teacher Sharon McMahon shines a light on the unsung heroes throughout American history who never made it into our textbooks. Read on for Sharon’s exclusive guest post on The Small and the Mighty and what made her want to write it.
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
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We’ve all heard of the men that founded America and built it through the years, but it took more than them to make it happen. Here, Sharon McMahon casts a needed spotlight on the other heroes of American greatness — ones you may not have heard of.
We’ve all heard of the men that founded America and built it through the years, but it took more than them to make it happen. Here, Sharon McMahon casts a needed spotlight on the other heroes of American greatness — ones you may not have heard of.
Humans have long wrestled with big questions, like:
Do I matter?
Despite all I have faced, how do I continue?
I am but one person, how can I make a difference?
In The Small and the Mighty, the stories of people who have come before us answer these questions.
I have long suspected that the best people do not have wings of universities named after them. They are the people who did for one person what they wished they could do for everyone. They are not the people in bold font in the high school history textbooks. They are the ones who just kept doing the next needed thing, those who refused to grow weary in doing good, no matter how many people told them their efforts were being wasted and their labors were in vain.
But this is no boring recitation of facts and dates, this is not time marked by battles and tanks. History is three dimensional. History is alive. History is funny, and it’s relevant to our lives today.
I wanted to write a book that people would come back to when times were tough, the book that would be passed on to your friends and family, one that would crinkle your cheeks into a smile and your eyes with misty tears. A book that will stand the test of time and have a recognizable place in your home.
It took me multiple years of research and completely starting over more than once before the final manuscript made it to print. But like many of the people whose stories you’ll find in these pages, I kept on having the audacity to try again the next day.
I am proud to see The Small and the Mighty on the “Best Nonfiction of 2024” tables at Barnes and Noble, and hope that when you close the last page, you won’t just know more about American history, you’ll know more about yourself. I hope you’ll know that you too are the small and the mighty.