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by Clifford H. Colpitts Jr.

History can be objective: the facts themselves are clear, it's the historians who change the facts. A true historian has to be objective because the moment the concrete information is changed into something else, the writing ceases to be a history.

The major problems with many histories is that they are written either from a nationalistic or religious perspective. Sometimes the truth is painful. Often a historian writes to keep his audience happy and most of the time the facts are changed by not reporting all the pertinent facts and their interaction upon each piece of the historic pie.

A true unbiased history has to be written from a pure analytical point of view. To assume that all historians cannot be objective is just not good thinking. Although many famous historians have not been objective, many have.

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