I recently heard a history professor state that when events happen, everything should be documented and first-hand accounts taped by all who were there or had knowledge of it. Then it should sit for 20 years and after that time, all of the information gathered together and looked at again with the perspective of time and other events.


>>>History is truly written by the victors. Or even better by George Orwell in 1984 "Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past".
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>>And in some cases, rewritten. :o) The Soviet Union is a perfect example. Our own textbooks in American schools is another good example. When it comes to American History you often read a different version of depending on if you went to school in the North or the South! Historians are attempting to remedy that now but not all schools have the funds for the updated textbooks. That is assuming of course that the historians that corrected the textbooks are correct!
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>And what do you think, how many writers of the original documents, written immediately after the fact, are aware that they are writing history? How many of them are biased? Heck, they are in the thick of it, they have taken sides even before it happened, and they still have their own public (or superiors) to satisfy. We may gain some insight only by cross-referencing and comparing their accounts.
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>As Milorad Pavich wrote in the last sentence of "Khazar Dictionary", "Truth is but a trick".