Documents and other preserved artifacts are often a very "low-res" view of what actually drives the course of events. Even with a well-ordered chronological arc

Documents and other preserved artifacts are often a very "low-res" view of what actually drives the course of events. Even with a well-ordered chronological archive of documents, there are far too many dots to connect between any two of them. Connecting the dots ultimately comes down to interpretation and creating a narrative. And narrative-based history is almost always wrong, deceptive and politically-inspired.