History is written by historians 💪💪💪💪💪

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• _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Nice try but no.

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Who wrote the history of the US Civil War for the first ~100 years or so after?

    PROTIP: by and large, it wasn’t the victorious North.

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    • _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s one example of one tiny portion of history..

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  History is not written by historians.

  We all create and collect historical source by living. And historians collate that information into stories in books.

  Historians do not create history. History is a joint effort created by humans.

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    History is not just “the past”. History is, specifically, the discipline interested in recording and creating narratives out of events that happened.

    Historians - professional or otherwise - create history, and it is the duty of a historian - and the purpose of the discipline - to do so responsibly and truthfully.

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