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* In an animated episode of ''TheTick'', a villain captures Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, and George Washington Carver. ("If I could only get my hands on those peanuts!")

* ConnieWillis' time travel series, ''Literature/FireWatch'', ''Literature/DoomsdayBook'', ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', and ''Literature/{{Blackout}}''[=/=]''Literature/AllClear''.

* ''TimeSquad''
* ''TimeWarpTrio''

* ConnieWillis' time travel series, ''Literature/FireWatch'', ''Literature/DoomsdayBook'', ''ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', and ''{{Blackout}}''[=/=]''All Clear''.

* ConnieWillis' time travel series, FireWatch, DoomsdayBook, ToSayNothingOfTheDog, and Blackout/AllClear.

* Also inverted in one episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', featuring a struggling TV writer who dabbles in black magic to summon WilliamShakespeare back from the dead to help him write his new show. After Shakespeare leaves in disgust after the TV execs butcher the script he wrote, the writer has another idea: a historical documentary, featuring the people who actually ''lived'' it.

* [[ConnieWillis Connie Willis']] time travel series, FireWatch, DoomsdayBook, ToSayNothingOfTheDog, and Blackout/AllClear.

* Comics example: In the Golden Age, [[{{Batman}} Batman and Robin]] would occasionally have a friend of theirs hypnotize them and send them back (or forward) in time to investigate certain events.

* ''Series/FamilyTies'' did it in an episode where Alex P. Keaton falls asleep - and he witnesses the Declaration of Independence. As this episode occurred around the time that Michael J. Fox (Alex's actor) was also playing Marty [=McFly=] on ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', this episode was possibly a nod to the then upcoming film. In the film, [[TheProfessor Doc Brown]] types in the date of the Declaration of Independence - when demonstrating to Marty how his time machine works.

* An old ''LooneyTunes'' WartimeCartoon has Uncle Sam teaching Porky Pig the foundation of the USA.

* In ''[[{{Discworld}} Thief of Time]]'' Susan Sto Helit (granddaughter of [[AC:[[TheGrimReaper Death]]]]) has taken the job of a teacher. Though it is never actually shown, it becomes fairly clear that part of her history lesson involves actually visiting the event.

-->--'''Abraham Lincoln''', '''''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure '''''

The title is a reference to ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''.

* ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'': as Abe Lincoln mentions in the page quote, the duo harvest various historical figures with their time machine and bring them in for their history report.
* "TheMagicTreeHouse" series of children's novels, in which a young boy and girl discover a magical tree house filled with books, and if they sit in the tree house, point at one of the pictures, and wish they are in the place pictured, the tree house magically teleports them there. Using the tree house they visit places all over the world, in the past, and on the moon.

* TimeWarpTrio

* An episode of ''HappyDays'' had Fonzie inexplicably being an American history expert and helping one of the others with a report on the Pilgrims. Cut to the Mayflower's holds, full of the cast now singing about journeying to America.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] on ''TheFairlyOddParents''. Instead of Timmy going back, he brought the founding fathers forward.
* ''SouthPark'' [[SatireParodyPastiche parodied]] it on one episode where Cartman intentionally electrocuted himself with a Tivo full of the History Channel. [[InvokedTrope It worked too]].

* ''BoyMeetsWorld'' did it twice.

* ''FamilyTies'' did it in an episode where Alex P. Keaton falls asleep - and he witnesses the Declaration of Independence. As this episode occurred around the time that Michael J. Fox (Alex's actor) was also playing Marty [=McFly=] on ''BackToTheFuture'', this episode was possibly a nod to the then upcoming film. In the film, [[TheProfessor Doc Brown]] types in the date of the Declaration of Independence - when demonstrating to Marty how his time machine works.
* Also inverted in one episode of ''TheTwilightZone'', featuring a struggling TV writer who dabbles in black magic to summon WilliamShakespeare back from the dead to help him write his new show. After Shakespeare leaves in disgust after the TV execs butcher the script he wrote, the writer has another idea: a historical documentary, featuring the people who actually ''lived'' it.

* In an early episode of ''TheSimpsons'', the rich Mr. Burns is forced to pay a huge sum of money to the city government for dumping radioactive materials. Lisa thinks the money should be given to the public school, and [[ImagineSpot imagines a scene]] with virtual-reality helmets which show a simulation of ancient Mongolia where Genghis Khan says, "Hello, Lisa! I’m Genghis Khan. You’ll go where I go! Defile what I defile! Eat who I eat!" This scene only lasts about a minute.
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Compare to WaybackTrip, where the history seems to be a little… ''off'', and the characters have to fix it. (Though there's naturally a continuum from this trope to that one; the main difference is whether or not the characters need to fix anything.) Compare also to AdventuresInTheBible where the history the characters enter is as told by the scriptures of a religion.

Compare to WaybackTrip, where the history seems to be a little… ''off'', and the characters have to fix it. (Though there's naturally a continuum from this trope to that one; the main difference is whether or not the characters need to fix anything.)

* Oddly used in ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in the PoorlyDisguisedPilot episode "Assignment: Earth." The ''Enterprise'' is apparently sent back ''on purpose'' to the 1960s to do research. This despite the many, many other TimeTravel stories in ''StarTrek'' featuring the dangers of interfering with the timeline.

* The ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' spinoff novel ''Salem's Tales'', did it.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' started out this way, sort of. Then came the Daleks.

* HorribleHistories

* ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''

* In ''[[{{Discworld}} Thief of Time]]'' Susan Sto Helit has taken the job of a teacher. Though it is never actually shown, it becomes fairly clear that part of her history lesson involves actually visiting the event.

* ''DoctorWho'' started out this way, sort of. Then came the Daleks.

* In an early episode of ''TheSimpsons'', the rich Mr. Burns is forced to pay a huge sum of money to the city government for dumping radioactive materials. Lisa thinks the money should be given to the public school, and imagines a scene with virtual-reality helmets which show a simulation of ancient Mongolia where Genghis Khan says, "Hello, Lisa! I’m Genghis Khan. You’ll go where I go! Defile what I defile! Eat who I eat!" This scene only lasts about a minute.

* In an early episode of ''TheSimpsons'', the rich Mr. Burns is forced to pay a huge sum of money to the city government for dumping radioactive materials. Lisa thinks the money should be given to the public school, and imagines a scene with virtual-reality helmets which show a simulation of ancient Mongolia where Genghis Khan tells Lisa that she can "kill whom I kill; eat whom I eat." This scene only lasts about a minute.

-> ''"Fourscore and...[looks at his pocket watch] seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other. And... ''party on, dudes!"''''

-> "Fourscore and...[looks at his pocket watch] seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!"
-->--Abraham Lincoln, BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure

The title is a reference to BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure.

* TheMagicTreeHouse series of children's novels

This is a stock episode plot of having one of your protagonists learn their history by actually going back in time and experiencing it. If available the characters will use magical or sci-fi methods to travel back in time. Other times it?s AllJustADream or a hallucination caused by a bump in the head. Bonus points if someone quotes the saying, "If you don't learn from the past, you'll be doomed to repeat it."

* The ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' spinoff novel, ''Salem?s Tales'', did it.

* JumpStart 3rd Grade, where the antagonist already knew the history and deliberately changed it her way, causing you to have to undo it back to normal.