What worried me was that she wasn't protecting her flanks. Show that you know what your difference is. Not for her. It was straight up your face. History is one of those words that will defeat anybody who wants to define it or who wants to say something different about it.
History is so established in our minds, it is hard to talk about it freely.
History was something they made, something they wrote. And I always asked them first to describe something of their full, rich, living present present so that they could learn to describe a sparse and selected past. I m a writer. Let me read something right off my pen. This is an afterword to essays by young writers on first peoples histories.