HISTORY+AND+VALUES

BACK TO Knower's Perspective = HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE  =

About whom is history written? Are the lives of some groups of people more historically significant than the lives of others? Why do selected past events appear in books as historically important while others are ignored?

To what extent is history dependent on who kept or preserved a written record?

To what extent is history about those who held power, and to what extent is it about ordinary people?

Are value judgments a fault in the writing of history? Should value-laden terms, such as atrocity, regime, hero or freedom, always be avoided, or does exclusion of value judgments deprive history of meaning?

To what extent can distinctions be made between factual report, biased interpretation and calculated distortion? Can history be used for propaganda? If so, how?