![]() ![]() ![]() It is nowadays fashionable in some circles to assert that the idea of honest or true historical accounts is a delusion, that all historical narratives are driven by an agenda and should be seen as mythical or quasi-fictional. It is at this point that the trouble starts since this inevitably involves an evaluative judgment, which can be controversial. The task of the historian is to try to establish, as dispassionately as possible, what actually happened in a given time and place and to give an explanatory account of why and how what happened came to pass. What seems to some people to be a topic of limited academic interest is for others the source of deeply held and passionate feelings. History is a subject that often arouses strong emotions. ![]()
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