Sunday, December 18, 2011
History
I know that this is a little late but oh well I wanted to put my two sense in about history. History is the combination of viewpoints that has been handed down through the years through mouth, paper, inscriptions and so forth. There is not a doubt in my mind that history has been altered through out time to suit the purpose of the victor or significant persons in charge. Never once do you hear about the common people who were the back bone of society. They are the figures and numbers in modern day text books. Today, our trust in the past relies solely on the trust we have of professors and scholars who compose the books we read. In some capacity we lose what really happened. By the way, what truly is history? What is the true version?
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Interesting that many textbooks are created or funded by corporations.... hmmmm... so they may not always be created in the world of academia. You would really like the book The People's History of the United States by Zinn. Because that is the whole premise, telling history from the point of view usually unrepresented.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just world history that gets distorted it's even our own personal past and memories, we "remember" events that never happened or our memories get adjusted creating "the good old days" that I'm sure stariha will be telling all her students about in just a couple of years.
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