Originally, the name of the blog was intended to be quirky! And “history” was already taken.
These days, however, it is also a statement of purpose. The blog attempts to tell people about history accurately, and truthfully. Reporting history as it is currently understood. Sadly, history is often used these days to tell lies and misinformation.
Now, historical-nonfiction will be biased. That is because all history is biased. It is based on whose story we emphasize, who wrote things down, and going back to archaeology, to whose artifacts survived.
Some facts are just facts. Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. But that is biased to the western, Christian calendar. Lincoln was born in 5569, according to the Jewish calendar. Lincoln was born in 4507, according to the Chinese calendar. You can see how Abraham Lincoln’s birth year can be reported accurately and truthfully, but no matter how we report his birth year, there will be a bias. And birth years are about as clear-cut as history gets!
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