I’m just saying it takes a while to get far enough from an event for historians to be able to look at it in retrospect, consider all its context and consequences, and come to a reasonable consensus about which parts were important and what to write about them.
For example I saw this video earlier about the levee failures in New Orleans during Katrina, which was 21 years ago. It made the good point that the repercussions of the event (in terms of engineering and otherwise) are still unfolding today: the historical record of what happened then is incomplete without the context that’s happening now.
(The youtuber was also hawking his new book on the history of engineering failures, but never mind that part.)
Or for a more prosaic example, that’s why my history textbooks in school in the '90s stopped around 1970 or so. They weren’t 20 years old; they just didn’t know what to say about the '80s yet. (And if they had been 20 years old, they probably would have barely talked about anything after WWII.)
And I’m just saying that recent history could keep you alive and the US from being taken into a civil war that’s unnecessary. Foreign powers are currently trying to cause unrest.
What history book talks about all the violent uprising in the last 20 years? I ask this because of the following:
Cmon, it’ll be fast. One, two week revolution tops. All the celebrities you like are doing it. Including that one. You know who I’m talking about.
I hope because I sure don’t.
“Oooohhhhh, you thought I meant that kind of revolution! I was talking about the you spin me right round, right round baby guy.”
“Haha silly Statesian, we mock you because you cannot dance”
None, because no history book talks about anything in the last 20 years. Stuff that recent is “current events;” it isn’t “history” yet.
Yesterday would beg to differ on that.
I’m just saying it takes a while to get far enough from an event for historians to be able to look at it in retrospect, consider all its context and consequences, and come to a reasonable consensus about which parts were important and what to write about them.
For example I saw this video earlier about the levee failures in New Orleans during Katrina, which was 21 years ago. It made the good point that the repercussions of the event (in terms of engineering and otherwise) are still unfolding today: the historical record of what happened then is incomplete without the context that’s happening now.
(The youtuber was also hawking his new book on the history of engineering failures, but never mind that part.)
Or for a more prosaic example, that’s why my history textbooks in school in the '90s stopped around 1970 or so. They weren’t 20 years old; they just didn’t know what to say about the '80s yet. (And if they had been 20 years old, they probably would have barely talked about anything after WWII.)
And I’m just saying that recent history could keep you alive and the US from being taken into a civil war that’s unnecessary. Foreign powers are currently trying to cause unrest.