Status Updates From Is History Fiction?

Historians: Discussing the impact language has in the construction of history and whether that means you can ever reach the truth of an event.

The Worst Guy You’ve Ever Met: So that means the Holocaust didn’t happen right?

“But for the historian, for whom the past is dead and irreproachable, the past is feminine. He loves it as a mistress of whom he never tired and whom he never expects to talk sense.” (Michael Oakeshott, 1955)

The past is like a sexy, stupid, dead woman? No, I don’t think that’s true.

“Through this remarkable flurry of metaphors, Butterfield’s text reveals a curious hatred of the past; there is a frustration and despair that the historian may ever know the truth about it.”

very scary, i finished a reading for class and then kept reading this during a break and it was literally talking about similar topics in my class. very well articulated

(reading for school)