Who writes history? easy 10 points.

Question

I have looked up this question on many diffrent sites and i can not get a clear answer that I ( 13 yrs old ) can comprehend. I have to write and essay for school so will someone please expline this to me.

Answer 1

People write history. <shrug> sounds stupid, but give me a minute to try to explain.

History is written by scholars, people who specialize in investigating the past and documenting it. They do this by reading the things that people of the time wrote. Like, Pliny documented his time, wrote about the wars, the thinkers, the religious people, the leaders, during the time of the rule of Nero in Rome.All throughout time there have been peole who have written about the time and place they lived in...poets, philosophers, historians. these are all sources that modern scholars use to write history about the time long ago.

History is also written by common, everyday people. If you keep a journal, put current events in it, write about your hometown, about your mayor and how his decisions affected the businesses in your town, that is writing history.

Its a bad explanation, but its the closest I can come.

Answer 2

Well it all depends on the person. I could be journalist who lived through the time or the war. I could be people’s journals it could be you. You are writing your history right now because you are living through it right now. So it all depends on the person or people. Just like me I am writing my own history by  the things do and say.

Answer 3

We all do everyday.

Answer 4

I think anybody could write history. A person yourself could write a diary of what happens in your day to day, which would be considered a primary source. Journalist in newspaper. =)

Answer 5

Historians write history.  Historians are from all different walks of life and cultures, and most likely are writing about some part of history that they are interested in.  Some are more biased than others, you have to be able to decide what sort of spin the author has placed on the subject.

The idea that the "victors get to write the history" is misleading.  There are tons of German accounts of WW2.  What there aren't is histories that say that the n***s won the war.  

Answer 6

The winners write the history. What this question is trying to point out is that all history is subject to bias. Had the Germans won World War 2 the history books would be saying that Nazism was good and that Hitler was good. However the Allies won so it is the Allied view of Nazism that entered the history books. The losers will always be portrayed as the bad guys whether it is the truth or not.

This answer sounds like I support the n***s but I must clarify that I do not I am merely using it as an example.

Canalog Y: The German accounts of WW2 do exist but you won't find them being taught in many places and you won't find them in the text books.

Answer 7

Who writes history?  The victor gets to write it!  When was the last time, you ever read about a war where it was the loser that got to write about it?  It's the victor who gets the honor, privilege and it's the victor who gets to put his spin on it.

Example:

At the Tehran Conference in  WW II, Churchill and Stalin got into a heated discussion about the Brit.s dragging their heels and not wanting to set a date for the D-Day invasion.  The Brit.s had tried it (specifically Churchill had tried it) in WW I and it proved to be an unforgivable disaster.  The Russians were getting pounded hard at Stalingrad -- over 395,000 killed in that battle alone, and needed the distraction of a two front war against the Germans.  D-Day was to be that distraction.  Stalin accused the Brit.s of dragging their heels and said that someday "God and the world shall judge!"  Churchill replied: "Yes, and I intend to be the one to write that history!"  At war's end, Churchill wrote a six volume account of WW II.  It is the standard by which the west recalls the war.  To hear those in the west tell it, D-Day was "The Turning Point" that won the war.  The Russians on the other hand, call WW II, the "Great Patriotic War" and by their accounts, they won the war for the world with very little assistance from anyone else.

So again, I ask you, have your read the n**i or the Japanese account of how the war went?  Answer: The victors get to record the events of history.