do you think a great amount of history has ben deliberately deleted and rewritten?

Question

i have no opinion on this subject but i heard a college history teacher say this and retired because of this belief.

Answer 1

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youths will be taught by Northern school teachers; learn from Northern school books THEIR version of the war”. General Patrick Cleburne

God Bless You and Our Southern People.

Answer 2

Revisionism!

History IS made by those who write it!

Also, if it were not for continuing scholarship and the new knowledge that is found or pieced together, history books would never have to change. I recently read an article about Mary Todd Lincoln. It was previously thought that she had been insane later in her life. New scholarship, based on letters previously not know, present a very different picture of her life after the assassination of President Lincoln.

Answer 3

You are maybe referring to an opinion represented by a German scientist who claims that 300 years of medieval history never took place. This is nonsense. Earnest scientists take this as a good joke.

However, history has always been and will always be rewritten and covered up. In the past 2000 years, most of this work was done by the church.

Answer 4

It is certainly possible. Not to mislead but due to a certainty in life, which is this.
Truth is a recount of someone on something. It is biased according to this person's location when the event happened, how old he or she was, his/ her gender/ and the passage of time before he or she writes his/her recollection of what happened.
Historians attempt to reconstruct the truths of many people and propose an objective (nowadays) narrative of the compilation of these truths.
There have been stories similar to that professor. However, was his truth also irrefutable? Whose truth is truest?
As a student, you will learn to navigate through prejudices and personas of your professors and peers.
Remain level headed, and learn everybodys truths to pass the exams and get your degree. LOL.
Eventually with everybodys truths inside your head, you will stay firmly right in the middle of things, neither believing nor disbelieving. and see if it is in your power to make the world a better place. Then move on from where you are to that piece of your own truth.

Answer 5

There are two kinds of omissions in the popular teaching of history. The first kind has to do with technical archeological stuff and ancient writing that has been interpreted and informs professional historians about the details of life in earlier times. There really is a lot of information of this kind, but it's too much to put into a basic education format, such as a high school curriculum.

You're not taught what is written in Roman law scrolls or in Babylonian religious tablets unless you decide to specialize in history. And even then there's major areas in history that you'll probably have to sub-specialize in. No historian knows all about history; he just knows a lot about his favorite parts of it.

The second kind of omission has to do with political correctness. Every government finds certain truths inconvenient, or, conversely, has told you lies that it really does not want to have exposed.

Sometimes, it's not the government who wants to suppress the truth or shield lies from discovery: occasionally, a group gains power over the visible leaders in government, so much power that the visible leaders are afraid of what might happen if this group becomes displeased. So the government acts to protect this group's lies and to prevent the truths inconvenient to them unknown.

So. Do you think the Nazis really had any "homicidal gas chambers" in the German-run WW2 concentration camps in Poland? Or is it a lie designed to extort money for Jews from non-Jews?

Answer 6

I am not aware of history being changed, but when it was written it was written with a great bias. Most history writers were white males, and saw things happening in their perspective, and they may have deliberately ignored certain things that went on.

Answer 7

O yes, for instance after a war the history is usually written by the victors. Usually history is written with a bias, so you might have to read between the lines.

Answer 8

I think so! But I also think that some history teachers, especially in public school, teach certain things and not others to make certain situations sound different.

Answer 9

O yes defenitly. When spain came to america Priests destroyed nearly all the Myan writtings. So we dont know that much about them if they were not burnt or thrown into the river then wed know alot about them.

Answer 10

Of course, history is written by the conquerers.