History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.