That history contains errors will not come as news to a person who has reflected on the topic.

Introduction: - That history contains errors will not come as news to a person who has reflected on the topic. The very first history, a Greek one, History of Herodotus, written around 450 BC, likely had quite a number of fictional details so as to affect its purpose.1 Those parts of our history, which are suspected to be fiction, are, at least, through research and comparison, salvageable. What, however, is possibly more disturbing than the realization …

…History of the World, 1614.) [10] Lord Acton's The History of Freedom. [11] "The Task of the Modern Historian." [12] Vol. III, p. 520. [13] There are bound to be current works, which are good, but I have not the time to wade through them. Paul Johnson, a history writer with some sense of philosophy and economics, is most readable and invariably full of the most interesting tidbits; check out his works, particularly, Modern Times and The Birth of the Modern.