History Main / FieldTripToThePast

* Literature/{{Timeline}}

* ''U.S. of Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}}'', sort of

* In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' 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.

* Also inverted in one episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', featuring a struggling TV writer who dabbles in black magic to summon Creator/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.
* Oddly used in ''Series/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 ''Franchise/StarTrek'' featuring the dangers of interfering with the timeline.

* In the ''Film/StarTrek'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars'', Fem!Kirk of the Alt Reality keeps getting shown memories of her counterpart's past, to her annoyance. When her counterpart is about to show her another one:

* In ''The New Adventures of ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' #26-27 (February-March 1982), the Boy of Steel tried going back in time once to complete a homework assignment on a project Mercury space launch [[ComicBookTime four years earlier]]. (The teacher wanted the class to write essays as mock-"eyewitnesses" to a historical event.) Among other things, Clark learned: he shouldn't use his powers to take shortcuts on his schoolwork; he'd turn into an [[IntangibleTimeTravel invisible phantom]] if he visits a time period when he's still alive; and he had no memory of most of the day's events, due to his younger self erasing his own memory. It turned out the younger Superboy had (under the request of [[JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]]) secretly saved the Mercury mission from Russian sabotage. Ultimately, "our" Clark returned to his own time and did the assignment "like an ordinary student." Making this worse, Clark admitted at the start he remembered seeing the launch on TV at the time, and the story's events forced him to do ''more'' research about the space mission than had he done the assignment normally.

* ComicBook/{{Superboy}} tried going back in time once to complete a homework assignment on a project Mercury space launch [[ComicBookTime four years earlier]]. (The teacher wanted the class to write essays as mock-"eyewitnesses" to a historical event.) Among other things, Clark learned: he shouldn't use his powers to take shortcuts on his schoolwork; he'd turn into an [[IntangibleTimeTravel invisible phantom]] if he visits a time period when he's still alive; and he had no memory of the day of the launch, due to his younger self erasing his own memory of most of the day's events. It turned out the younger Superboy had (under the request of [[JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]]) secretly saved the Mercury mission from Russian sabotage. Ultimately, "our" Clark returned to his own time and did the assignment "like an ordinary student." Making this worse, Clark admitted at the start he remembered seeing the launch on TV at the time, and the story's events forced him to do ''more'' research about the space mission than had he done the assignment normally.

* ''[[RockyAndBullwinkle Peabody's Improbable History]]''

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', a villain captures UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, Creator/BenjaminFranklin, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg, and George Washington Carver. ("If I could only get my hands on those peanuts!")

* ''Literature/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.

* In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' 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.
** Not ''literal'' homework, but in ''Guards! Guards!'' the Librarian needs to know what a certain book says. Unfortunately, the reason he needs to know is that the book has been stolen. So he walks back in time (which apparently all libraries can allow), and reads it before it is stolen.
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/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 UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan 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 few seconds.

* In the ''Film/StarTrek'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9795158/1/Written-in-the-Stars Written in the Stars]]'', Fem!Kirk of the Alt Reality keeps getting shown memories of her counterpart's past, to her annoyance. When her counterpart is about to show her another one:

* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' (Zero Context)

* ''U.S. of {{Archie}}'', sort of

-->--'''Abraham Lincoln''', ''[[Film/BillAndTed Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure]]''

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', a villain captures UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg, and George Washington Carver. ("If I could only get my hands on those peanuts!")

* The Chilean comic ''ComicBook/{{Mampato}}'' is about the titular character travelling to various places and time periods (including the prehistoric era, TheMiddleAges, the Chilean War of Independence, and [[TheFuture the 40th century]]) using his "space-time belt". Being a bookworm, he does it out of a genuine desire to experience the time periods he reads about (or to help/meet with his friends, a caveman and a mutant girl from the future).

* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.

* {{Ayreon}}'s double album ''Universal Migrator'': the last human, living on Mars, uses ImportedAlienPhlebotinum to relive past lives, going all the way back to just before the big bang.

* ''JumpStart3rdGrade'', where the antagonist already knew the history and deliberately changed it her way, causing you to have to undo it back to normal.

* In an animated episode of ''TheTick'', a villain captures LeonardoDaVinci, BenjaminFranklin, ThomasEdison, JohannesGutenberg, and George Washington Carver. ("If I could only get my hands on those peanuts!")

** And the cavewoman who invented fire.

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* In ''[[Literature/{{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.

The title is a reference to ''[[Film/BillAndTed Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure]]''.

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