Predjudice in history

Can an historian ever be free of prejudice? This is a question that has been debated by many historians and intellectuals for centuries. As history is a very wide subject and depends on the historian picking out information from a vast selection of facts, can their prejudice or bias consciously or subconsciously never become part of the history they are writing? To fully discuss this question we must look at several factors and how these factors can effect Historians. One of these is what the word prejudice actually means and how we can relate this to history. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion, and an unjustified and or unreasonable bias. As it states in the Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (2003), “Prejudice is an unsubstantiated prejudgment of an individual or group, favorable or unfavorable in character tending to action in a consonant direction.” (1) With this interpretation of the word in mind, how can we relate this to history and the historian and determine whether the historian can ever be free of prejudice? One of the things we

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