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	History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A form of historical speculation known commonly as virtual history ("counterfactual history") has also been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way.
		From history we may learn factors that result in the rise and fall of nation-states or civilizations, motivations for political actions, the effects of social philosophies, and perspectives on culture and technology.
		Winston Churchill alluded to another philosophy of history when he quipped, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Churchill's joking comment is a variant of the famous: "History is written by the victors." In this view, the winners in human conflicts get to put their own spin on historic events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History (1619 words)

	Philosophy of history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is often argued that the victors use their political dominance to suppress their defeated enemies' version of historical events in favor of their own propaganda.
		Hegel argued that history is a constant process of dialectic clash, where one idea or event will form the thesis, an opposing idea or event will be its antithesis, and the clash of the two will result in a synthesis.
		The philosophy of history is intertwined with the philosophy of education because much of the basic history learned at the elementary level is aligned with regional biases, whether unabashed or inadvertent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophy_of_history (2157 words)

	History of England, Arthurian Britain
		Written evidence concerning the period is scanty, but we do know that the most significant events were the gradual division of Britain into a Brythonic west, a Teutonic east and a Gaelic north; the formation of the Welsh, English and Scottish nations; and the conversion of much of the west to Christianity.
		Let's face it, history is written by the victors anxious to boast of their triumphs, to magnify their successes, and to denigrate the enemy.
		In the Gallic Chronicle of 452, Tyro had written that the Britons in 443 were reduced "in dicionen Saxonum" (under the jurisdiction of the English).
	www.britannia.com /history/nararthist.html (1737 words)

	The Last Stand of the Levellers
		History is written by the victors; the process by which rulers rewrite the past in their own image was not invented by Stalin or even by George Orwell.
		The history of Britain is presented to the general public as a slow inexorable growth of democracy and justice from the departure of the Romans to the arrival of Ted Heath.
		The present pamphlet was originally written in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the events it describes, the mutiny in 1649 of those regiments of Cromwell's victorious army stationed in Salisbury at the end of the Civil War.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/historicalanalysis/last_stand_of_the_levellers.asp?format=print (9182 words)

	Chronicles of Earth
		Sumerian history is emphasized, inasmuch as it was the earliest well-recorded history of civilization.
		history written by the victors in any given conflict or event, but it was then revised by whoever took over from the victors, and by whatever means they came into power.
		Any investigation into ancient, early, recent or current history, one must always bear in mind that anything written in the past is just as likely to be a history written by the victors (as the modern day “spins” of current events).
	www.halexandria.org /dward006.htm (847 words)

	History Is Written by the Victors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Between these plays, even though they were not written in chronological order, is much of the intervening history of England, in the six Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI plays.
		Richard III fought against the first Tudor monarchs and was therefore labeled in the Tudor histories as a vicious usurper, and he duly appears in Shakespeare’s plays as a murdering monster.
		England’s enemy is not so much any individual king as the threat of civil war, and the history plays come to a triumphant conclusion when the threat of civil war is finally averted, and the great queen, Elizabeth, is born.
	www.bard.org /Education/Shakespeare/history.html (380 words)

	Hegemony -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Throughout history, cultural and political power in any arena has rarely achieved a perfect balance, but hegemony results in the empowerment of certain cultural beliefs, values, and practices to the submersion and partial exclusion of others.
		Hegemony affects the perspective of mainstream history as written by the cultural victors for a sympathetic readership.
		The details of the parties' respective ideologies have no relevance to whether they are hegemons: both sides featured (A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world) superpowers (supported by their clients) battling to dominate the (A competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments) arms race and become the supreme world superpower.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hegemony.htm (1005 words)

	Will history be written by the victors nowadays. - TechIMO Forums
		But as people are so apt to say that the victor determines history as if it were some sort of hard fast rule and that no matter what.
		History is a collection of many different points of view, opinions and ‘narrations’.
		History is not simply the American point of view, or the Syrian, or Austrian or Chinese ones.
	www.techimo.com /forum/t49332.html (1050 words)

	Real revisionist history - The Daily Illini - Opinions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Basically, revisionist history is when you look at history from the point of view of those who are out of power.
		Accounts of history that focus on the lower rungs of society are condemned as revisionist history, because they do not fit the accepted mold of U.S. history.
		History is something sacred to me. Like basketball, it is kind of a religion.
	www.dailyillini.com /news/2004/10/08/Opinions/Real-Revisionist.History-747073.shtml (661 words)

	Teaching History Online: 75
		This is one small, yet significant, piece of America's Civil War history that the victors would have preferred not to have been told.
		Schools History Image Galleries: These galleries contain a combination of photographs taken by webmaster at different sites, pictures contributed by users of the site and images believed to be in the public domain.
		Soldiers is military history that looks beyond the battlefield and into the family lives, daily routines, and battle-tested values of veteran servicemen.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /history75.htm (971 words)

	Androphile Gay History Project: The World History of Male Love
		Looking at any history textbook, one would think that never has a society praised love between men, never has a painter, a poet or a pope shared his bed and his heart with another male.
		It was the cornerstone of a cultural tradition that 2500 years ago provoked the awakening of democracy, theater, philosophy, mathematics, history, and so on.
		As this is being written (winter 2004), it could also illuminate the growing debate about gay marriage, a tradition documented the world over for thousands of years, but nowhere as widely or as recently as in North America, where it was practiced and honored by many of the First Nations.
	www.androphile.org (995 words)

	How Iraq's history is being written by the aggressors
		For these journalists, this is their "big break", their chance to "make it" to the national and global media with false scoops and the distortion of events which, for them, become "news" only when simplified beyond any recognition.
		History is, indeed, being written by the victors.
		In the case of the BBC, the state-owned broadcaster in Britain, it is quite simply an arm of the state and a mouthpiece for its propaganda.
	www.redress.btinternet.co.uk /media.htm (1323 words)

	Projects boost black history
		To make fl history come alive, Greater Cincinnati teachers are bringing in singers, doing art projects from a slave's perspective and writing letters to historical icons.
		During Black History Month, Francis dresses up in traditional African garb and tells students a story of Anansi, the wise and mischievous spider, who is featured in traditional West African tales.
		The gathering also teaches children about the history of foods such as yams and leafy greens that were cultivated by Africans brought to America as indentured servants or slaves, O'Neal said.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/02/06/loc_blackhistory06.html (1425 words)

	The Victors quotes & quotations
		"I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
		Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself --tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless --sometimes plays at _incubus_, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking.
		The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court.
	en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/the_victors (614 words)

	Jung Talk - Can We Trust Written History? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are certain points of history that seem impossible to make sense of in any other way...
		Written history can now be backed up or rewritten using all kinds of studies with verifiable means.
		And if we listen to some of the archetypalists, we are reminded all history, recounted or written, must be to some degree 'fictional'.
	www.cgjungpage.org /talk/showthread.php?t=3169 (1283 words)

	Historiography
		Historiographical studies consider the source, often by researching the author, his or her position in society, and the type of history being written at the time.
		For primary sources, we look at the person in her or his society, for secondary sources, we consider the theoretical orientation of the approach for example, Marxist or Annales School, ("total history"), political history, etc.
		Some recent historiographical controversies include periodization of European history, rate of exploitation of African-Americans during and after slavery, the role of whiteness in U.S. labor struggles, and the attitude of "good Germans" to the Holocaust.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/historiography.html (428 words)

	UC Berkeley NewsCenter
		BERKELEY - History is written by the victors, goes the saying, and the official record of significant events does seem to favor those who benefit most from their outcome.
		The Bancroft Library's oral history archives date back to the library's namesake, Hubert Howe Bancroft, who recognized that his vast collection of books, journals, maps, and manuscripts on western North America failed to include the living memories of many of the participants in the development of California and the West.
		History major David Washburn, for example, interviewed nine people for his fall 2002 thesis on the Mexican-American community in Richmond during World War II, which became part of the Rosie the Riveter project.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2003/08/05_roho.shtml (2056 words)

	everyday wonder: History is written by the victors: Theodore Judson's Fitzpatrick's War
		Winston Churchill is credited with the saying, "History is written by the victors." In Theodore Judson's masterful science fiction future history Fitzpatrick's War, this concept is explored in detail.
		This is a fictional work of scholarly history, in which a professor of history is "setting the record straight" on the problematic memoirs of the fictional Robert Mayfair Bruce.
		Bruce is one of the close associates of a prominent figure of this future history and one uniquely suited to writing his biography.
	everydaywonder.blogspot.com /2005/07/history-is-written-by-victors-theodore.html (728 words)

	Brain Channels -- Brain Development at Dawn of Civilization
		It has been said that history is written by the victors and that the vanquished are seldom heard from again.
		We may believe that we create history but the truth could very well be that history shapes us and is derived from the neurodesign structures within our brains that lie beyond our conscious awareness.
		Our human ancestors spent 99% of their evolutionary history in hunter/gatherer cultures; in small nomadic bands of a few dozen individuals who got all their food each day by gathering plants or by hunting animals.
	www.brainchannels.com /evolution/dawnofcivilization.html (278 words)

	...........Michael Pollan...........
		History is written by the victors, it's often said, but what about natural history?
		This invariably gets written by one human being or another, no matter what species' triumph it trumpets, for the altogether trivial reason that (so far as we know) humans do all the writing around here.
		But the impatiens has prospered by giving us exactly what Claude Hope understood we were looking for in a flower, and if that has turned out to be a plant with the durability and bright relentlessness of plastic, this is not the impatiens' failing so much as it is its genius.
	www.michaelpollan.com /article.php?id=4 (978 words)

	The Iraq Question
		Practically all of the current discussions of the question of a second invasion of Iraq and the forced removal of Saddam Hussein consist of both sides arguing about "rights" and "morals".
		And since history is written by the ultimate victors, Poland was allowed to fall -- with the promise of military aid which was written into the treaties ignored.
		I appreciate that what I have written above may be disturbing, may seem cynical and immoral, so I shall add a more personal note.
	www.spectacle.org /0902/iraq.html (653 words)

	Electronic Communities
		Indeed, history as written by the victors, is indicative of detrimental editing.
		It is common to say that history repeats itself, but an advance search feature of this interface would seek patterns of events and highlight the areas for study.
		As mentioned above, history is written by the victors, so different time periods of history will have embedded bias.
	www.bway.net /~hank99/itp/emergent/final.html (1514 words)

	Amazon.com: History as Mystery: Books: Michael Parenti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I have to admit however that I was somewhat dissapointed in 'History as Mystery.' I found little value in two chapters discussing the oppressiveness of the catholic church in the middle ages, and although the chapter on 'pyschopolitics' is highly amusing it is somewhat dated.
		He examined the reasons for Christianity's rapid spread, the history of anti-Semitism and the clashes between labor and capital in terms of more recent factual evidence versus what is commonly explained in textbooks and the mass media.
		Parenti shows how history is written as a self-serving process by elites, a process sometimes clumsy, sometimes refined, but always geared toward preserving privileged role of wealth and power.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872863573?v=glance (1859 words)

	Crowhill Weblog » Blog Archive » “History is written by the victors,” we’re told
		“History is written by the victors,” we’re told
		Nowadays, “history” is written by Hollywood — IMO about the worst group of people you could possibly pick for the job.
		This entry was posted on Sunday, January 18th, 2004 at 12:28 pm and is filed under General.
	www.crowhill.net /blog/index.php?p=846 (178 words)

	Landmark's History
		Oh well, as they say, history is written by the victors.
		So, if you combine this history, with the other two on this web site, you should have a pretty good idea of what was happening in Roxbury in earlier days.
		John Eliot Burying Ground, at the corner of Washington and Eustis streets, was established by the English colonists in 1630, and was used until the middle of the 19th century.
	www.mindspring.com /~highlandpk/id23.html (2485 words)

	A Tribute to Gay and Lesbian History Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		History is written though the eyes of the dominant culture, as seen through the lens of their beliefs, biases, and experiences.
		Western history, in particular, is shaped by a sense that sexuality should be repressed.
		While the record of history is often written by the victors, history is made by those who dared to do great deeds and who challenged the injustices of the present.
	members.aol.com /matrixwerx/glbthistory/hidden1.htm (1406 words)

	Blaming the Little Guy for History's Big Crimes
		History repeats itself, and it is mainly the little guy who gets it again and again.
		This is true because history is written by the victors and controlled by the powerful, and because few people at any period make an effort to question it.
		It is the kind of history we should have learned not to repeat.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0524-21.htm (881 words)

	History News Network
		History News Network Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.
		Because Weinstein concluded that Alger Hiss was Soviet spy, he earned the wrath of Hiss's defenders (including Victor Navasky publisher of The Nation), but, at the same time, Weinstein found himself embraced by conservatives for the same reasons.
		Curriculum: Manipulating America's History Teachers," authored by Sandra Stotsky, examines the supplemental materials and workshops that history teachers take to fill in the knowledge gaps on subjects ranging from the history of racism in the U.S. to the history of Islam, and finds many of them coming up short.
	hnn.us /comments/33519.html (2763 words)

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