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Telling the truth about history

This book, by three major American historians, grapples with the problem of historical truth. Accepting that much of history teaching has been flawed, the authors nevertheless argue for an affirmation of historical knowledge against the doubts of the sceptics and the relativists.

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  • "This book, by three major American historians, grapples with the problem of historical truth. Accepting that much of history teaching has been flawed, the authors nevertheless argue for an affirmation of historical knowledge against the doubts of the sceptics and the relativists."@en
  • "We have lost our grip on historical truth. Popular films depict subterranean conspiracies that shape historical events and public knowledge of those events. Best-selling narrative histories dissolve the border between fact and fiction, allowing the author's imagination to roam freely. Influential critics dissolve the author herself into one among many sources of meaning, reducing historical knowledge to a series of texts engaged with each other, not with the past. Powerful constituencies call for histories that affirm more than inform."

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  • "历史的真相"
  • "Powiedzieć prawdę o historii"@pl
  • "La verdadera sobre la historia"
  • "La verdad sobre la historia"@es
  • "La Verdad sobre la historia"
  • "Jak říkat pravdu o dějinách : historie, věda, historie jako věda a Spojené státy americké"
  • "历史的眞相"
  • "Telling the truth about history"
  • "Li shi de zhen xiang"
  • "Telling the truth about history"@en
  • "歷史的真相"

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