Question

what are the main problems that historian faces while using different sources for writing a coherent history ?support your answer with examples.​

Answer 1

Historians tend to put their own spin on history, often revealing their own bias and opinion. This is now accepted since it is almost unavoidable anyway but it is important for the reader to understand it, just like when watching today’s news. Some historians (and reporters) hide it better than others but even the events that the historian chooses to record represent his point of view. i.e which story is more important to future generations. Many other things occurred on July 20, 1969 but most of us would agree that landing on the moon was a significant milestone in history, more so than my dog’s birthday. I would record one for the books, but not the other. (sorry Fido). But also, how do you record it? It was a significant scientific achievement, and should be recorded as such but it was also in the context of a “space race” between the USSR and the USA in the middle of the Cold War. It would not be surprising to see an American historian give it a great deal more significance that a Soviet one. There is nothing wrong with perspective, but it should be recognized.

One disturbing thing I have noticed in modern histories is that they tend to leave out the strong religious aspects of people in the past. If you read the old histories, you can plainly see the strong Christian religious-motivations of men like Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Michelangelo, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and almost all the Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, and most US Presidents and a host of others. I can only conclude that modern histories leave out much of this information because it is not important to the modern authors, and so they don’t think it is important enough to include - but that is a mistake because it was a motivating factor in the lives of so many great men in history, science, music and the arts.





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