>Without knowing the correct reason,
>would-be historians make up something that sounds
>reasonable, but is in fact not true.  It's a great
>book that identifies a number of ways historians
>and others can make mistakes in interpreting
>history.
The historian's job is to "make up something that sounds reasonable," since
we can never be in the mind of the person whose history we interpret.
However, the irresponsible historian says this is the way it was.
The responsible historian says this is a possible or likely way it could
have been.

Vincent


Vincent T. Lyon
Robert Crown Law Library
Stanford University
650-725-0810
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