If you could time travel to one event, which would it be and why?

Jason Gehrke, history: “Well that’s pretty easy. I would go to the Resurrection.”

Jason Peters, English: “The Athenaeum Club. Anthony Trollope overhears two clueless clergymen complaining about Mrs. Proudie, a character in his serialized novel ‘The Last Chronicle of Barset.’ Trollope, unable to contain his irritation at these prelates, stands and says to them, ‘I will go home and kill her before the week is over!’ And so he did. Give me that or Appomattox two years prior.” 

Ivan Pongracic, economics: “As a guitarist with a deep passion for music, I would choose to go see one (or more, if possible) of my favorite guitarists playing live at the peak of his powers: Hank Marvin and The Shadows in 1961, Dick Dale and His Del-Tones in 1962, Ritchie Blackmore’s “Rainbow” in 1976. I suspect those would be truly fulfilling experiences with a great deal of nourishment for my soul.” 

Paul Rate, history: “The travel that I would like to undertake is travel through space and time to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to sit in on the deliberations that took place there and then concerning the framing of the US Constitution. I would like to hear with my own ears the words of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Dickinson, James Wilson, Luther Martin, Charles Pinckney, Rufus King, and Gouverneur Morris.”

Roger Butters, economics: “That’s easy. Outside a garden tomb on a Sunday morning, in the spring, circa A.D. 33.”

John J. Miller, journalism: “I’d want to go to the Sermon on the Mount — but then I’d be like “Oh shoot, it’s in Aramaic. And modern dentistry is too far in the future. So, just take me back to Tuesday night and I’ll watch the Red Wings win again.”