Japanese Historians and Scholars Rise Against Lies and Fabrications
Many historians “argue that since absolute truth must always elude the historian’s grasp, ‘evidence’ is inevitably nothing but a biased selection of suspect ‘facts.’ Worse yet, rather than dismissing the entire historical undertaking as impossible, these same people use their disdain for evidence as a license to propose all manner of politicized historical fantasies or appealing fictions on the grounds that these are just as ‘true’ as any other account.”
Phi Beta Iota: Most history is at least half lies. Time we fixed that.
See Especially:
Review: The Landscape of History–How Historians Map the Past (Paperback)
Review: Enclosure – Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror
Review: Lost History–Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth’
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