In "The History of the Siege of Lisbon," author Jose Saramago stresses the importance of historically accurate writing. ... Raimundo Silva emphasizes the importance of the reader's ability to distinguishing between the parallels of fact and fiction in what is assumed to be historically accurate writing, according to the author's interpretation of history. ... They believe historians can make assumptions on particular facts about the past from the evidence available to them, but the way they give meaning to those facts is through their own creative imagination." ... Although it is ...

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Like the Jews the Greeks believed their gods were in control of nature and the outcome of social affairs, but the Greeks pioneered the writing of history ' 'in self-consciously human terms.... Marx impact on politics was very impressive but his historical writing "Marxist" in the extreme, for the most part it's not very good history. ...

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The writing of American history has passed through four stages: the providential, the rationalist, the nationalist, and the professional. ... Also writing this type of history was Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts and Cotton Mather. ... Their writing was more refined and allusive than the studiously plain prose of their Puritan predecessors. ...

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What Does Film Tell Us About History Much what how we represent the past in the present is based upon reconstruction of history through various primary and secondary sources. Indeed the various approaches and methodologies within the discipline of history are divided and diverse. Historiophoty w...

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