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History

History 101

A meta-history tracing how humans invented the very concept of recording and weaponizing the past, from ancient scribes to nationalist myth-making.

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What This Book Covers

  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter One - Before History Was History
  3. Chapter Two - The Scribes of the Sand
  4. Chapter Three - Herodotus & The Invention of the Historian
  5. Chapter Four - God’s History
  6. Chapter Five - The Chronicalizers
  7. Chapter Six - When History Burned
  8. Chapter Seven - The Enlightenment and the “Facts”
  9. Chapter Eight - History Becomes a Weapon
  10. Chapter Nine - The Memory Machine
  11. Chapter Ten - Wiki Wars & Digital Dogfights
  12. Chapter Eleven - The Future of the Past
  13. Chapter Twelve - History as a Mirror

Excerpt

PROLOGUE BEFORE THERE WERE books, before there were scrolls, before there were walls to paint or clay to press a thumb into, there was a story. Spoken. Soft. Shifting. A tale told by a fire. A name whispered to a child. A hunt remembered in blood and bark. We were already making history. We just didn’t know we were writing it. Because history doesn’t begin with writing. It begins with deciding. What matters? What should be remembered? Who deserves to be known? And who disappears? Before we invented ink, we invented bias. Before the scribe, there was the storyteller. And behind the storyteller, a motive. Not to record. To shape. To make sense of what happened. To make it sound better. To...

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