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Originally Posted by darklingmiss  Any time you study history, you have to remember that each source, even the primary sources that these authors are drawing from, are all written by people. So objective history is like doublethink. It doesn't really exist except for in terms, and even those are contradictory. Only way to conclusively know what happened would be to have been there at the time. |
I would like to think that if you utilize trusted historical sources you can usually gain a very good idea of why things went the way they did.
History is one of those things you have to treat like "hard" science. You must believe it is true until someone proves that it is not. Flexible perceptive abilities are a must
