History Is Written By The Winners: Who gets to write the textbooks? Where do the teachers learn about history? What documents are allowed into the historical record, and what documents are excluded?

These are not merely academic questions, they go right to the heart of the question of history itself

Who’s in charge matters a lot more than you think when taking things into context. Studying history is one of independent journalist James Corbett’s interests. He’s done AMA’s here too which were cool.

Source: https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-350-history-is-written-by-the-winners/

 

 

h/t Orangutan

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