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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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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Are you dodging the question? What makes someone a historian? Is anybody who writes a book on history automatically an authority on history?

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