To what extent do you love History?

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I love History (mankind's at least), to the extent that I would Write History Books/Volumes about every Era of Mankind, even though I hate writing (English Class writing).

And I would Live in the History, by Reconstructing it, personally. Or Making my own (history).
One thing that I hate about History Textbooks, is that they only tell one side of the story from a biased viewpoint.

If I was to write one, I'd write about both sides, with good detail, and no bias (while I would include some opinions)
 
History in the public classroom has become an exercise in Political Correctness. We knew this was coming, no one ever bothered to translate Julius' Latin into the modern Romance era. Caesar had a lot to say to the western world.

Reading first-person accounts from American authors such as Barbara Tuchman and Will Durant is but pop history but better than having obscure diarists shoved down our throat.

Just know that the victors write the history books. I see 1/3 of the world as Roman Catholic, 1/3 Moslem, and 1/3 Socialist happening in 50 years time. Vatican City never did come clean on what they de-constructed from the Greek. The Moselm can bear no intellect and the efficiency of socialism won't allow a universal education.

Live (and make) your own history, before it's too late.
 
i like learning about certain times of history (WWII blows my mind!)
If I ever wrote a history book though I'd try to include humor with the truth and also have version for people who just need to hear that everything is okay
 
I absolutely love history---I didn't do at school as a separate subject (i.e. it was included in SOSE until grade 9) but I major in it at uni and have done every single unit I can fit in. I would love to wite books on history--only problem is I'd have to learn several other languages like German, Latin, Spanish, French----then ones like Mandarin and Japanese--before I could do the first-hand interpretation of primary documents.

As to how I would write---I would just provide an interpretation of the facts---as every historian provides an interpretation of the facts (I would however provide an intro that gives a bit of my history so that readers might know how I might be biased---As E.H. Carr said--'to know the history, know the historian')--this is because every historian/person is shaped by their social/cultural background---impacting upon what they write no matter how they go about it (I'm sure you history buffs knew all about this anyway lol)

Is this the type of answer you had in mind?
 
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