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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8665128" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>In graduate school, I wrote a fantastic paper about the lynching of John Carter in Little Rock in 1927. I was very, very proud of this paper, and quite impressed with myself because I finished it in its entirety three weeks before it was due. It was an important paper, so I went over it with a fine toothed comb once more and I suddenly noticed a gaping hole in the paper: I didn't have anything in there from the perspective of African Americans. This certainly wasn't a deliberate act on my part, and I think I missed it because finding primary source materials from a black perspective was a little more work than finding other perspectives. It was hard finding copies of black newspapers published in Arkansas in 1927 so I had to search out-of-state for ones that mentioned the lynching, I found oral interviews with black Arkansans born after the lynching who knew about it and I was able to show the lasting effect it had on the community, and I was able to examine other historians' contention that there was a black exodus following the lynching. i.e. It was a better peper when I included a black perspective.</p><p></p><p>I bring this up, because you're right. What is objective history? You can write something with the best of intentions, but a historian is only as good as their sources are and sometimes they're unaware of their own blind spots. My paper about John Carter was great. Was it objective? Like all history, it was an <u>interpretation</u> of the past based on the available evidence. Not an objective account.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8665128, member: 4534"] In graduate school, I wrote a fantastic paper about the lynching of John Carter in Little Rock in 1927. I was very, very proud of this paper, and quite impressed with myself because I finished it in its entirety three weeks before it was due. It was an important paper, so I went over it with a fine toothed comb once more and I suddenly noticed a gaping hole in the paper: I didn't have anything in there from the perspective of African Americans. This certainly wasn't a deliberate act on my part, and I think I missed it because finding primary source materials from a black perspective was a little more work than finding other perspectives. It was hard finding copies of black newspapers published in Arkansas in 1927 so I had to search out-of-state for ones that mentioned the lynching, I found oral interviews with black Arkansans born after the lynching who knew about it and I was able to show the lasting effect it had on the community, and I was able to examine other historians' contention that there was a black exodus following the lynching. i.e. It was a better peper when I included a black perspective. I bring this up, because you're right. What is objective history? You can write something with the best of intentions, but a historian is only as good as their sources are and sometimes they're unaware of their own blind spots. My paper about John Carter was great. Was it objective? Like all history, it was an [U]interpretation[/U] of the past based on the available evidence. Not an objective account. [/QUOTE]
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