{"id":9155,"date":"2024-09-18T05:46:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T11:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=9155"},"modified":"2024-09-18T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T11:55:48","slug":"can-history-be-objective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/can-history-be-objective\/","title":{"rendered":"Can history be objective?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History comes from historians who write about it. To achieve an objective understanding of history requires reading multiple historians. The chorus of Leftists interpreting history in the Marxist framework should be avoided. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the \u201cright side of history\u201d when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history.<br><br>My side of history is Cato the\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CynicalPublius\/status\/1657102487235579908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History comes from historians who write about it. To achieve an objective understanding of history requires reading multiple historians. The chorus of Leftists interpreting history in the Marxist framework should be avoided. I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the \u201cright side of history\u201d when both their past and their present are so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-history","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}