"Every work of history is at least as revealing of the person who wrote it, and of the period in which it was written, as it is of the events it portrays."
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History, or accepted facts about the past, used to be considered a natural science of "how it really was" , thus a historical fact was equal to the fact of a natural science. However, scientific facts are independent of the scientist and modern historians have discarded Ranke's1 view. Some historical facts have a similar nature to that of scientific facts. The year in which Brazil was discovered or the name of Soviet Communist leader in 1940 can …
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…Arab describing a terrorist attack as an act of liberation tells us more about the oppression of Arabs and their views than on the event itself. A Historian's job is comparable to that of an architect's. "One has to have good building material and construct the building so that it is strong. But what the house will look like in the end, does not only depend on the material, but also on the architect / historian."
…Arab describing a terrorist attack as an act of liberation tells us more about the oppression of Arabs and their views than on the event itself. A Historian's job is comparable to that of an architect's. "One has to have good building material and construct the building so that it is strong. But what the house will look like in the end, does not only depend on the material, but also on the architect / historian."
