“Guiding Questions (for blog): What is history? What does it mean to do history? Do historians have a method? How do historians establish context? How is the past constructed and/or reconstructed? Whose history is it?” This question could be a line in a Platonist Socratic riddle within a riddle that answers itself with each successive question leading one in a circle that is the answer. History is a subjective representation of a prior period and depends on the context and content of the presenter and presentation of the content and the context. The type of and history of the historian influences the history and the historian as well as the consumer. And so these answers then answer the next and the next and the next. Yes? We can use all four pieces of the readings and presentations from this week to illustrate this and I will present my own unique…
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