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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (42398)6/28/1999 11:26:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
I read the history books written close to the actual events in history and the biographies of men who lived through what today is "history".

Speaking as someone who was trained as an historian (and specifically as an historian of ideas), let me say we will never know History as it really was; we will only know interpretations of it, some of which seem more adequate than others.

People who have lived through the events they describe, as well as those later write biographies of those that have, are as biassed -- or as little biassed -- as anyone else.

One of the things I love to do is to read old, old newspaper articles about events that transpired long ago...The writers don't know what came later, after all. They don't know what the consequences of the events they are describing will be. And their own presuppositions, idiosyncratic convictions, even prejudices are so obvious. Reading such articles always makes me feel nostalgic, and sad....

Ah, humanity!
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