To: CHARLITE
This is the first time I understood that they justify false history with the idea that no history ever written is "true" history. I always knew that history was written by the victors, and in that sense told the side of the victors. Hence a history by the Huessions of the Crossing of the Delaware would differently than that of George Washington. But it is particularly vicious that modern historians simply change what they wish in support of their agenda.
3 posted on
12/27/2004 8:45:29 AM PST by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
To: KC_for_Freedom
This is the first time I understood that they justify false history with the idea that no history ever written is "true" history.
How can any written history ever be considered "true"?
If history should be a scientific inquiry based upon evidence, any particular written history must be seen as tentative, as the best account of past events justified by the evidence as we currently understand it, but it also must be subject to review and revision based upon the discovery of additional evidence.
There can be no such thing as "true" history.
5 posted on
01/12/2005 1:59:59 PM PST by
BikerNYC
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