I can see future students simply denying that anyone would have really voted for DJT.
“I refuse to believe that anyone was that dumb!”
Can’t really blame them, I can hardly believe it now.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 week ago
We’ll see how many primary sources even survive the following decades.
Though I don’t envy anyone who has to do history science when a large amount of primary sources are available. Imagine having to analyse Trump tweets for a paper.
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 week ago
Many Germans did vote for Hitler (never the absolute majority of voters, though), even though he was clearly hateful and evil and obviously making lots of false claims, and on top of that looked completely ridiculous when he was shouting and screaming in his speeches. Can’t remember seeing any German say that they don’t believe that anyone voted for the guy.
tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
We’re in the age of AI now. Are future historians going to be able to trust primary sources?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Historians aren’t supposed to trust primary sources from any time period.