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Question: What is history anyway!? The history books are written by the victors!.!?
If True history is out there how do you find it!? If you go by educational history books they seem to change yearly!. I know its all so the publishers can make yet another large sum of money by changing the cover and some pics around adn calling it the NEditionion and charging 150 for it at the campus book store!. BUT, where can you find the really OLD history books!? The ones that were written pre1900!? Before the biased media had a chance to stick theprejudicedced fingers into the material apolluteute the information!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Archive and network, wide!. Turn over stones and question everything!. Read between the lines and there is ALWAYS another side to a story!.!. It is not always the 'victors' who write the story, but perhaps, those with the most to gain, politically!? Dig deep and with integrity!. Older people are a good source, those with proximity to the event ie: the story their grandparent told them, the hierloom diaries, which differs from that recorded for public eyes!. The more you dig, the more you find!. There are Historians, who passionately persue the truths of the past!.!.!.buried, but not forgotten!. laying silently in wait, for an airing of truth and 'true' justice!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
not all textbooks are biased i think!.!.
the textbook i am using for my ap history class seems to show both sides of a situation equally and i've actually learned from it some things that i thought were good were actually not as good as they are portrayed to be by media and such!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
your not going to get an unbiased one, its either writen by the victors or the losers but it shouldnt matter, facts are facts only with a little exageration, you cant make up dates or places or what happened, you can exagerate the numbers, but good readers can pic that sort of stuff outWww@QuestionHome@Com
history can be use to manipulate too, and yes history books are one sided!. history can evolve too!. i am not sure where you can find old books, but you can watch documentaries from other sides!. you have to realize that they chopped big portions of old books, because they think its wrong!. Www@QuestionHome@Com