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old, or restart the history in a different way. We can see that it is an evolving thing, yeah it's always a very popular subjects. To talk about anything relating derision is history, and I find it interesting just because it touches on the idea of the history of history itself. Basically, how we view history and because it is always important to over your own assumptions and like make sure like what you believe is in based on something not right exactly and that's what makes provision is history so controversial, and it's not always controversial. Sometimes it's as simple as fixing a date and a history textbook right right back in nineteen, thirty wine, the Eric and Historical association. President Carl Becker made this sort of landmark speech in which he clarified that history wasn't a static list of of dates and aims and in our very fixed chronology in our global culture. He said that it is.

Following living thing, and I like to think of history as going to an art museum and you look at a painting and the way that I interpret it is dependent upon my life. Experience is the thine in I was raised and I use I have and what I've been taught in. They come long, look at the same painting and have a totally different interpretation, and I think that around that time people wished earnings learned that it was ok to think of history. That way, it didn't have to be a very fixed subjects. It clearly in a reinterpreted and re, not reoccur, turned about revalued at year end and I think Becker himself. Actually I'm compared it to looking over your own history like, if you think about your own past, and there are certain things that you do skew and you do choose to forget like you obviously can't remember everything in the in the idea of of related History is necessarily picking out facts and ignoring most of the other facts, and so

necessarily like objectivity is really difficult, and so just the fact is just the way that you pick out. Facts can alter how someone understands it, and we know that historians as early as Plutarch hazardous for doing us, they were revising history, but it didn't really become a. Major subject of discussion and tell World WAR two when historians had to go back and think about How do we write about the war? How do we write about the Nazi soldiers and that's when River, his history really became a hot topic and in the decades that continue to up to follow all of these evolves. Movements began not just in the United States but around the world, and even globalization itself was a volatile topic, as well as technology, like the Vietnam WAR, the civil rights movement, the Cold war and the feminist movement. All of these things happening that made people realise that different names and different motivations needed to be including history, textbooks, Ezra and soda

started incorporating looking adds marginalized people of society like you mentioned feminist movement, so they would. They looked at famous women and in their their work in the feminist movement, and you civil rights Movement in America, at least after that people started much more attention to one more african Americans or marginalize races in general. Exactly so before we go any further. I think it would be a good idea, maybe just so even warm you guys. I forget, you are familiar with revisions. History to tell you a little anecdote and we have a great article on our website about revisions. History and author of this one begins by telling the full of its story of George Washington and the territory. And it is a fund, simple little anecdote and which were told a school children or we used to be rather that George Washington went and cut down a territory on his parents property one day and when his father asked him whether or not he cut down the tree, he said father. I cannot tell a lie. I cut

the territory net, it was meant to reaffirm and the early Americans mines that George washing was a man of valor and truth and he could be trusted. He was a good leader and it was true ends, and we know, even today, archaeologists went out and they survey land where he would have grown up and there were no cherry trees on the property vied with a story that made him a larger than life figure in our minds, and so one of the things visions, history dies is correct, specific facts and with a case like this, it doesn't really detract from George Washington's character that that stories

trail? You know we still have many of the same assumptions that we did about him before you, this right, correcting faxes, something that leg. Obviously, every historian should be open to if the. If there is no evidence that is revealed by all means, go back and and fix it, and if that means altering how we think of of someone nor history, we should do that by a lot of people. Think of revisionist history, no more radical way. Charles beard is a famous historian that challenge how we thought it. The founding fathers and general he looked particularly The revolution, the American Revolution in he said these people, stood to gain money like a too because they had debt that they buy very cheaply and that they by after the revolution they would make out and, so we Charles Beard was like. Oh, they want really interested in what they said, they're interested in like than the liberty is another of the meeting

behind the the constitution by rather they are just after money, and that brings to mind a very important perspective that revision of history takes as well, and if the fact checking perspective is the most cotton Tribal called out number one. The number two perspective we would say like Dana's, referring to now applying specific lenses to history, and there are four that it promotes primarily applied in those are economic like with Charles Beard, theory, political, racial and sexual ends. These social or on their medical perspectives, can completely alter the way. We view a group of people, but it's again like you are looking at a painting and aren't easier, more or reading a book. You can read these different theories and you can apply the gate, the lens that's being applied here, but you don't have to agree with it.

It gives it a new shade of meaning. That's true and one thing to consider when these new ideas come out. These radical new ideas about you know: did the Chinese discovered America before Columbus, not like this, that these books and everything that they do sell and die. So there is that motivation just to take these new theories with the grain of salt, that academics have motivation there that temptation to come up with these new radical ideas for their own purposes and that's when things can get really dangerous and we'll call that perspective number three and that is taken. A negative perspective and and looking out revisionism as an opportunity to put gender and history and to get people to believe a certain factor, that's not exam a true and in some instances, if it's just dead wrong and that's apparent to everyone and not call revision of revisionism. Excuse me

negation of than elsewhere at year end one example of this: I think you're gonna. We too was the Holocaust, denial, yeah, yeah and revisionist claim. Oh you. We don't want to be associated with something like Holocaust denial, because you know the facts are there and it did happen and these radicals who are saying that it didn't shouldn't, be associated with us. So, let's take a look at some other examples: I've revised histories and revised historical narratives. That can in fact alter our perspectives in the past and It's the same old song from amateur, bring up my favorite man, Thomas Genuine, dig. It feel that sparkle, in my eye on that Thomas Jefferson, entirely hemmings affair didn't come to light eight until you know well after DNA tests conclusively proved that here, father children with her and then there are. You know,

several generations of Jefferson children who had black blood in them, and I think that really complicates the Jefferson image, because we know that he had slays I'm onto cello man. We know from some of his his slaves narratives that were written down that he wise rooms, a good master, but he was still a master of slaves and he did not believe in the dissolution of the institution of slavery. He stood up very strongly for the fact that he thought it was an institution that faith itself out and I believe he had a selfish. And I believe he had a selfish motivation and that I think that Marilla Cello was run completely you off of all the hard work of slaves and he knew he had a good thing going and despite the fact that he was kind to them- or he was a good master, it, it would have fallen apart and how how complex and difficult to grapple with the fact that he supported Every and yet he Father children who wouldn't be accepted as as equal members of society, so

A really strong point of view about a founding father, whom I dearly loved for his ideas when he contributed to our nation bite. Revisionist history. Doesn't look at people specifically can also look at periods of I'm the drains interesting. If you look at the different periods in history, they were obviously named end. These names were invented by certain people who had certain perspectives on history. So you look like a name like that ages are the enlightenment or the renaissance, and whether it was true intention or just the connotation of the name of the word. It does sort of shape, how we think of them, and so on he's good. Like a house of works, we have this grey motto of keep asking and is always good to always questioning how we think about history in general and one person story of mine that I you know had. I am young enough to have gotten of kind of risk, this history when I was taught was there when I worry about the American Revolution, my textbook with talk

physically give a lot of defences for the British, you know is taught. Obviously America by my textbook was Kay. But the British ain't had their health and their reasons, and- and this is why they did those tax- and they are just defending America bubble of law, and so really. You can see it seeping into american schoolchildren today at so interesting to think about, and I think that there is one particular county. Florida has outright band, any sort of interpretive or revisionist textbooks. And again we see the revision. Is history can be a really the term. Even I George W Bush years, sat down to describe the media covering the war in Iraq back in two thousand three. He called them revisionist historians and depending on whether you look at revisionist history as an opportunity to bring a greater truth and I and a greater shade of understanding or some sort of Hamilton

motive to get people to corresponded your agenda. It can go either way, one of the most important reasons to study revisionist history. Even history is that we ve been told time and time again a history repeats itself and a really hot topic right now, with Obama getting ready to come at the White House and is the idea of a new new deal but to use your lake animists are claiming through their research that the original new deal wasn't so hot after all and that it actually might have put United States back seven years in terms of economic recovery and what they're saying as that The policies that were part of the National Industrial Recovery ACT actual made. The great oppression continue on until about nineteen forty three, when the economy could have naturally corrected itself by thirty six. So, what after yard-

it essentially was revoke any sort of punishment for big corporations that were trusts and he encouraged employees to be paid. Twenty five percent more than what their salaries in their jobs were really worth and so were looking now in these economists are saying we really think twice about any sort of. New stimulus plan to help boost the economy, the others should replace the day. You very right- and I have heard that theory before because like if you look at the- if, if you look at half the are illegal on people say the depression didn't end until the war and the war is really what ended the depression and not afterwards policy. So it is very relevant today to decide what we're gonna do exactly and I think a lot of After your eyes, a bigger than my president year. He certain has the most memorable meant in Washington, certainly is a variable of it figure. He had an incredibly long term. He had you know people who followed and listen to the fireside chats and there are also very the advance of Eleanor, and so these are clear:

You're putting forth this new theory or a really shaking out on perceptions of a president who people you know here fourth, that lead our nation through a really hard time and another questioning their questioning. That, and I think some theorists are you going so far as to question what fifty hours ulterior motives may have banned? Perhaps he genuinely thought he was doing the right thing for the nation for the economy, or perhaps it was a power measure. Maybe he wanted to hold his office and he knew tat. He could continue to keep the people. You know more than two radically yeah sow heterogenous history. Who knows what will be revealed? Hacks there are so many opportunities for you to go in and look at historical narratives and revise them and bring your own point of view to them, and we would encourage you guys to see that with many

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