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Originally Posted by Maggy J
You just have to preface anything you say that it was thought by some and end it with the suggestion that some sources need to be viewed with discretion. The teaching of history has become based on actually looking at sources by eye witness and contemporary non eye witness(hearsay) and later hearsay.Just because something is written down does not make it a truth.
It's no different than checking facts online today..you have to bear in mind the agenda someone might have in slewing information to convey a certain viewpoint as fact.
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And you really don't think modern day historians haven't done that, really?