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What is the problem of historical interpretation?

There is a common problem that I think, most of the people usually do in terms of
historical interpretation, we often focus on finding the answer immediately, we are eager
to find one facts. But in terms of historical interpretation we need to read more, get more
focus and find different articles just to prove that the facts we are looking for are right
and correct. We need different sources, like history book not only textbook, different
historical documents and artifacts that presents different voices, accounts, interpretation
and perspective in the past. We will agree that history is taken from the past, but let us
not forgot that written history is from historians, it is based from what they saw, what
they interpreted. In order for us to interpret history, it is not enough to read only the
article, the documents or the book, we need to comprehend and analyze it. This two can
never be apart for comprehension may use in identifying the author or source of a
historical documents or narrative and assessing its credibility, on the other hand,
analyzing may be use to comparing and competing historical narratives.

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