I had a history book in school which basically attempted to tell history backward. It didn't work very well in my opinion. The problem is, telling history backw

I had a history book in school which basically attempted to tell history backward. It didn't work very well in my opinion. The problem is, telling history backwards makes for en extremely "whiggish" view of history where everything is understood in the frame of how it lead to the current state of the world. It makes it very hard to escape hindsight bias.