Everything gets discussed. I pushed on. She explained that it was partly the controversy over the renovation. I was stunned. Nothing we could use.
Many people assume that history is an unalterable set of facts.
Historians know that history is an account of what happened based on surviving evidence and the questions we bring to it. Every account of the past is limited not only by what we can know but by what we care to know. History is constantly rewritten not only because historians, archivists, and ordinary people discover new sources of information, but because the world around us forces us to bring new questions to old documents. History is not a fixed body of information. It is a powerful dialogue between present and past, which is why it is so controversial.