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There are no constraints on history other than that it happened in the past. If a story hasn't been adequately told, it should be.
by mtdewcmu 12y ago
There are no constraints on history other than that it happened in the past. If a story hasn't been adequately told, it should be.
- walterbell 12y agoWe need more media that compares competing histories. John Haywood's New Atlas of World History (10 pdf samples: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9519.html http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9519.html) experimented with color-coded timelines & maps, e.g. history of global writing systems up to 1492, http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/haywood/s4c_9519.pdf http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/haywood/s4c_9519.pdf
- jclos 12y agoI disagree slightly. An additional constraint I would put is that there is enough time past for the historians to have a good view of the events (and their consequences). There is a lot of debate among historians (according to a historian friend of mine) about the legitimacy of historians specializing on "recent" history, because of the lack of distance and the inherent subjectivity (not that the distant past is any less subjective).
- walterbell 12y ago> enough time past for the historians to have a good view of the events (and their consequences). One example is http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee
- mtdewcmu 12y agoIt seems like in high school you're more likely to miss out on recent history than have too much. Recent history is at the very end of the textbook/class and you're lucky if it doesn't get cut.