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i will also be waiting to see

all i can see is that i stand by it still

the answers are the work of historians

finding those answers, making their own calls, situating decisions in larger narratives and context
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nobody 3mo ago

i forget the name of the book off the top of my head and i cant text my friend this early in the morning. the one who recommended it to me. so il circle back, i know i shared it before

a book about how ww1 was the first war where people were writing history on top of it while it was happening

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nobody 3mo ago

reader: from the bottom of my heart

this is ~not~ how history works

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nobody 3mo ago

history needs perspective and time

that is why the rules in /askhistorians reddit are what they are

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nobody 3mo ago

generally speaking, anything more recent than that is propaganda or at least, agenda. as in: what people are writing about they have a stake in seeing that way. that compromises their objectivity.