A large fraction of accepted knowledge about history and events is simply false. Just read a newspaper account about an event you have personal knowledge about.

A large fraction of accepted knowledge about history and events is simply false. Just read a newspaper account about an event you have personal knowledge about. Sloppiness, inaccuracy, omission of crucial facts, bias, fabrications, etc., are commonplace. It's why historians continuously churn out new books on the same topics. How many biographies of Abe Lincoln are there? I get 10,000+ hits on "Lincoln Biography" on Amazon :-)