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Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:00 AM

History is bunk after all

Much of what we're taught has been twisted to suit someone's needs
By Laura Miller

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009 09:26 PM

    Zinn

    @NP NP

    Zinn's book makes an effort to present an alternative narrative of what we otherwise believed to be true. One would not normally label an attempt to provide the other side of the argument as having an agenda ie a one-side dogmatic, unipolar view.

    MacMillan's point, if I understood Laura, is that reading history requires "humility" without the reductive tarnish of "relativism"--history without an absolute singular narrative.

    What's agendize?

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