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Caricatures in History

brianthebard · 2008-04-10 14:56:43

Is there a danger that historians can start to caricature elecments of history? The dictators of the twentieth century spring to mind. Do historians (or history classes or whoever) repeat a certain viewpoint or bias until it becomes divorced from fact? And how can this be countered?

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10-04-2008 3:56pm

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Is there a danger that historians can start to caricature elecments of history? The dictators of the twentieth century spring to mind. Do historians (or history classes or whoever) repeat a certain viewpoint or bias until it becomes divorced from fact? And how can this be countered?

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#2 10-04-2008 7:36pm
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The famous phrase springs to mind - Winners write the history (or something to this effect) There is a lot of truth to that. I learned it first hand when i came here, and started reading in English. History we were taught behind the Iron Curtain is very different from the one you were. And it's not only XX century either, they changed it all the way to the medieval times.

And to counter this, we should start by not throwing to jail people who dare to question official truths. No matter how much we don't like their theories.

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