According to Toynbee, in order for a civilization to occur people needed to be in an area which required imagination, creative and cooperative work, and there was a struggle to survive. Toynbee saw Western Civilization as a doomed civilization but believed that we are heading for something better, a communication filled global village. Through many historians, history grew in sophistication and knowledge. Although none of these historians could be considered true historians today, none of them can be considered as failures since they have all added to the cumulative knowledge of history and historical events. In the writing of contemporary history, there is no one historian which dominates the field.
History currently has incredible diversity and many sub-disciplines.
The historian of today must be a multi-disciplinarian and is there to correct the distortions created by the pseudo historians.