How many genealogists are better off than these poor students? A lot, I hope.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Mis-understanding history
Posted by Harold Henderson at 3:01 AM
Labels: history, The Historical Society
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How many genealogists are better off than these poor students? A lot, I hope.
Posted by Harold Henderson at 3:01 AM
Labels: history, The Historical Society
2 comments:
This jives well with my sense of reading history. Seems to me if teachers talked more about this - it's not obvious to a student IMO - it would increase understanding of history and the world by a lot. Also of interest in studying history if you understand how it is coming through the author's filters of what matters and what is of interest. Of course this leads me to figure that if I really wanted to understand history I would have to go to the sources and make my own interpretation of what I would find there.
. . . or, if you're not quite that industrious, read some good historians who have different angles on the same subject, and triangulate. If they disagree on a lot, the stuff they agree on may be more solid!
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