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PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 4 days agoDid you forget how you wanted to end that or…? 🤷♂️
Regardless, if you don’t think historians are writing history books, what do you think they’re doing? And no, in school they taught me that the US founding fathers founded the US, pretty objective stuff. You know, names, dates, locations, etc. I’m fascinated to hear what else you think I was taught though, this is fun!
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Researching it and writing papers for other historians.
Do you think most historians write popular history books for non-historians?
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, but I do think history books are by definition written by historians.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
So, you think anybody who writes a book about history is a historian? No wonder you are so lost.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, I think anyone who writes a book of historical facts (hence the name “history book”) based on research is a historian. And if I were lost, that’d fall under cartography, not history. See, cartography is the study of making maps. Maps are to cartographers as history books are to historians. Make sense?