Texas limiting new AP history course's influence

[TygrBright]

3. And then there's this gem...

...from a Democrat, even! ""I think we need to teach history as it happened and not change it," Perez said."

::sigh::

"History as it happened."

Right.

Actual historians-- the ones who make an ill-paid, poorly-respected 'career' out of rootling out primary source material, comparing it with other primary source material, placing it in a larger context, analyzing the sources and all of the commentary and analysis and conclusions it's generated to date, and then coming up with their own analysis and conclusions, documenting them and adding references, finding the all-too-few places to publish or archive their material so other historians can access it, and probably also trying to drum some curriculum into a few adolescent and post-adolescent heads... THOSE people...

...are hooting helplessly and bitterly when they read these words "History as it happened."

Ah, well...

There is a 'historical record'... ish... thing. Incomplete, intentionally or unintentionally biased, and generally poorly preserved.

There are primary sources.

There is something called a "historical consensus."

I suppose you can put a certain amount of those three things together and CALL it "History as it happened."

But that don't make it so.

amusedly,
Bright