You may well find that learning how to ask questions is sometimes as important as having the answers. Thus you will have ample opportunity to confirm for yourself that one form of knowledge is not enough. Our reexamination, though, will not involve an attempt to simply replace one set of assumptions or interpretations with another. Instead, our reexamination should demonstrate for us the essential validity of some of the remarks made above by university administrators.
History is a picture filtered through the lenses of time, language, and point of view.
The history of the moment, of the daily headline, has immediacy and heat but can often lack the depth and accumulation of detail a later look can provide. As for point of view, accounts of an event vary not only with the witnesses' physical perception of the instant but also their political and philosophic perception of the world and of human nature itself. History is a tricky story that depends on who is telling it and where they're coming from. I first heard stories of the coal wars of the twenties . . . Some years later I wrote a screenplay for a movie called Matewan based on what I'd heard and what little I could find that was written about it.