“It has sometimes been assumed that an accurate and objective history is one that simply records all the salient facts, as though video footage recording all event from sky cameras were somehow available at the university media center . . . But once it was realized, more recently, that all histories are selections made by that finite creature called the historian, the opposite mistake was easy to fall into. A frequent assumption in these postmodern times is that the whole enterprise is hopelessly subjective, and so one man’s history is as good as another’s” (5 Cities, p. xvii).
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