This established familiarity and unanimity of bias is frequently treated as “objectivity”. - Michael Parenti

History has many unanswered questions, but it is no mystery as such—except for those who make it so.

The important thing is not just to identify specific historical events—as might a quiz show contestant—but to think intelligently and critically about them, and be able to relate them to broader social relations.

The writing of history has long been a privileged calling undertaken within the church, royal court, landed estate, affluent town house, government agency, university, and corporate-funded foundation.