• Richard@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think that this is true for ancient and medieval history, but ever since the printing press we’ve got massive amounts of contemporary primary sources. So it’s not like we cannot say with certainty what happened during World War I, World War II, 1930s Germany, civil rights movement, etc.