• merc@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      They’re of course going to give you the surface level, popular version of what happened. If you want to actually know the real story you need to talk to historians.

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        2 days ago

        No you need to talk to people who have been dead for hundreds of years, your entire argument is based on not trusting historians.

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          1 day ago

          Historians are the ones who break through the myths. Myths are what you’re taught in school. In school they told you all about how the US founding fathers were heroic figures fighting for their freedom…

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            Did you forget how you wanted to end that or…? 🤷‍♂️

            Regardless, if you don’t think historians are writing history books, what do you think they’re doing? And no, in school they taught me that the US founding fathers founded the US, pretty objective stuff. You know, names, dates, locations, etc. I’m fascinated to hear what else you think I was taught though, this is fun!

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              Regardless, if you don’t think historians are writing history books, what do you think they’re doing?

              Researching it and writing papers for other historians.

              Do you think most historians write popular history books for non-historians?

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                  24 hours ago

                  So, you think anybody who writes a book about history is a historian? No wonder you are so lost.

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                    24 hours ago

                    No, I think anyone who writes a book of historical facts (hence the name “history book”) based on research is a historian. And if I were lost, that’d fall under cartography, not history. See, cartography is the study of making maps. Maps are to cartographers as history books are to historians. Make sense?