The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.