Learning from true historians is a mental exercise. Try this. SLAM. A cellophane wrapped copy of a New York newspaper published in the mid to late 1800s. SLAM. A copy of a Savanna paper published the same day. Each with a different take on what happened the day before. The lesson to take from the divergence is that history is often written, not by people who witnessed events but, by those who read news accounts of what happened and the news accounts of what happened was almost always tilted based on the feelings of the writers, editors and publishers of the papers and how they felt about what was happening from their social – geographic perspective. History is not read from one source. It is learned from the recorded viewpoints of multiple and conflicting statements about what happened. The when and where is usually consistent. The why is always the source code for opening a debate over whose history is more accurate.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:38:02 +0000
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