It’s no shock to find out some Historians plagiarize, outright lie, are incompetent, lazy, boring, or even crazy. Your would expect your Doctors colleagues and the relevant State and Federal licensing Organizations to approve of your Doctors practices. Yes it is reasonable to expect they passed all of them. For example your family Doctor - You should expect at a minimum that they have gone to Medical School, Residency, and completed a Board Exam. Every “Professional” should have certain training and guidelines. A History book should stand up to fact checking and peer review and have a talented editor. I though for an Academic Historian - objectivity, attention to detail, and a gift for writing, even if limited, were prerequisites. Like Fake or Blatantly Biased News is destroying Journalistic integrity, Fake History or Blatantly Biased History is an equally big problem. I was surprised to find that historians are in crisis (or at least some are). A book on writing history - boring right? Nope, even this book was a page turner. From my armchair I have observed some Historians can write about topics I had little or no interest before starting and keep me up all night, while others, even when writing on my favorite topics can put me to sleep in a page or two. I am in awe of Evans after reading his Trilogy on the Third Reich. I have had no formal training in the field of writing History but I enjoy reading History.
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