Re:How Akbar came to love books despite never learning to re...
by srean on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:18PM
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> History should be taught as it is? No lies.
Not going to happen. History is always written by the victorious and in a way that is more flattering towards the victorious. The way we think of Hitler nowadays, we would be thinking the same of Churchill if WWII went the other way.
Not going to happen. History is always written by the victorious and in a way that is more flattering towards the victorious. The way we think of Hitler nowadays, we would be thinking the same of Churchill if WWII went the other way.
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/rethinking-churchill-...
What we can do instead is to tech people to read history well aware of this bias and mentally correct for it.