By Zeaus

Is “History: The Story” told by the winners?

I’d like to believe that it is told by the winners. Whenever you view history you see what has occurred. The books in which we use to learn this information is usually created by someone who’s on the side of the victors. A lot of history has been lost when wars are won because the winner will choose to either wipe out the information entirely or ignore it completely. I’d like to believe this doesn’t happen as often anymore due to the technological advantages we have now a-days, but back then if paper with history on it was burned or destroyed without having been copied it was gone. If the Germans had won WWI in the 20th century, they’d obviously paint themselves as the “heroes” or “saviours” that overcame the odds. We paint the Central Powers as the bad guys in WWI, but I believe that there really isn’t a major villain in the war. Yet because the Triple Entente won, many people see the Central Powers as the enemy. Same can’t be said for WWII as everyone can agree that the axis leaders weren’t good people.

I can analyze evidence to make judgements

In History 12 I believe we constantly take information that’s given to us and not only make judgements, but formulate our own opinions/interpretations as well. Just recently, we analyzed quotes which we were then asked to explain their significance to the topic or how we interpreted the quote(s). During our U.S. interwar subject, we all took different quotes from Henry Ford, which we then discussed with a partner and explained to the rest of the class the significance it has to our world today. Mine related to the passing of knowledge, and how someone is willing to learn whatever they want, but you can’t force someone to learn. I related that to my peer tutoring of Socials 10.