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Originally Posted by JohnnyClips
A historian only looks at "official" documents, which of course will never incriminate the officials who created them. Duh. "Officialdom" has nothing to do with the truth at all. The official stories come from the people at the top and 99% of the time are complete and utter nonsense
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No you silly boy. Historians pick apart the official versions. The historians job is to work out if the official version is accurate, and if not why not; and if the official version is not accurate, was in intentionally not accurate.
Then if a case can be made for the official version of events to be considered inaccurate, the historian has consider why this would be so. Who wrote it, what did they have to gain, did the lie succeed etc.
But as I said before, you would know this if you had an education.
