SAVING HISTORY

I help folks rethink the interpretations of the past. We each come to know the historical past through a process, whether taught in school, or through our own reading, or simply what we hear from the media and those around us. While we might not have any outward suspicion that what we learn may be inaccurate, we can't know that unless we question it, that is question the sources and interpretations. This is what I do in my capacity as a Museum Director and University Professor. I encourage students and the visiting public, to question what they are learning... Why rethink what we already know or can easily "google" or ask AI? Because it is all interpretation. We know recorded history is an interpretation of a past event, based on the available sources, and influenced by the historians worldview and bias, but so too is everything else. Clearly at some point we have to get off the researching treadmill and make about decision, but we do not have to commit in stone to that decision. We..