In "The History of the Siege of Lisbon," author Jose Saramago stresses the importance of historically accurate writing. ... Raimundo Silva emphasizes the importance of the reader's ability to distinguishing between the parallels of fact and fiction in what is assumed to be historically accurate writing, according to the author's interpretation of history. ... In the journal article entitled "Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation," C. ... Although it is debatable whether or not the Bible is considered historical fiction or historical non-fiction, it is f...

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That is to say the "facts" in history are not always completely accurate because some historians are not careful in their research, some have some ulterior reasoning based off individual theories, or simply because the writing of an accurate history is an impossibility. ... The writing of an accurate history is an impossibility. ... All historians can do is base their knowledge of the event off of journal entries, but there aren't facts built into the group, let alone dictated to us by those who have experienced historical events from the past. ...

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Next I want to discuss the actual textbooks, the publishing and writing of them, and lat we will look at teachers and students in the classroom as another possible reason. ... In an online journal called rethinking schools.org there is an article by a 5ht grade teacher by the name of bob Patterson. ...

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The writing of American history has passed through four stages: the providential, the rationalist, the nationalist, and the professional. ... Also writing this type of history was Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts and Cotton Mather. ... Their writing was more refined and allusive than the studiously plain prose of their Puritan predecessors. ...

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