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> History is what people want history to be Yes > .Always was, always will be.History is always the tool to justify the status quo. No and yes. We have vario
by pm90 5y ago
> History is what people want history to be
Yes
> .Always was, always will be.History is always the tool to justify the status quo.
No and yes. We have various sources to determine what happened. To create a specific kind of narrative using that data is a choice that many can make. But historical data is still there, and different narratives might still arise.
Liberal democracies and the freedom of speech create the fertile ground required for historians to look at past records and explain what happened.
- trzy 5y agoTrue but the thorny question is not “what happened” but “what happened that was important?” What do we focus on investigating and how do we connect it to a broader narrative (and when writing a paper, a book, or a lecture, there is always a narrative because that’s how we communicate).