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• 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.

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  • 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?

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So, writing a book makes you a historian. It’s not studying history?

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Damn, selective reading is a tough diagnosis. Is there a pattern, like you only understand every other word or something, or is it just completely random?

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