Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.
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I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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.
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
Ideas shape the course of history.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
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