Historiography

I just read an essay on the value of historiography that impressed me. Here is one sentence that registered: "“[D]ocuments we read in the archive are almost never written to us as their intended audience”.

Orel Bellinson, If You Want to Learn from History, Look under its Hood, Medium, available at https://medium.com/@orel.beilinson/if-you-want-to-learn-from-history-look-under-its-hood-b83b2b872c7f?sk=0dad45f6e7082d445194cc38cecae4d9 (Mar. 27, 2020).

That history has something to teach us seems obvious. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is just one phrasing…