The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History
Written by James M. Banner, Jr.
Narrated by Bob Souer
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Banner shows why historical knowledge is unlikely ever to be unchanging, why history as a branch of knowledge is always a search for meaning and a constant source of argument, and why history is so essential to individuals' awareness of their location in the world and to every group and nation's sense of identity and destiny. He explains why all historians are revisionists while they seek to more fully understand the past, and how they always bring their distinct minds, dispositions, perspectives, and purposes to bear on the subjects they study.
James M. Banner, Jr.
A Guggenheim Award–winning professor of history, James M. Banner, Jr., was on the Princeton faculty in 1974 when he contributed to the presidential misconduct report and is now an independent historian in Washington, DC. He was a co-founder of the History News Service, a moving spirit behind the National History Center, and the author of many books, including Being a Historian, and the editor of Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today (The New Press).
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