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Taking a Closer Look at History

As a person begins to study History, it is important to note that there are certain considerations that person must first keep in mind. Naturally (or maybe even ironically), these so-called “considerations” are from history itself- past historians whom we should study with our utmost critical insight. How do we do so? First, we must come to realize that just because something was written as history doesn’t mean it is actually true. Hence, there is the need to continue researching on historical events as well as on the historians who wrote of them. Many people would consider this as the “first critical insight,” and this is one of the reasons why we take up Historiography in the first place – to know and understand the many facets of history; what makes history what it is; who makes history.

“History is a version of events. Between the events and the historian there is a constant interplay.” This means that history is very much dependent on whomever is writing it, and what his or her motives are. Historians such as Herodotus believed that he had to report events as what was told to him for the sole purpose of reporting it to the people. But even he admits that History must not always considered as comp

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