Homework Help: history

Posted by Jeff on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 5:53pm.

The great French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874) sympathized with the French Middle Ages and with the Revolutionary epoch in France, yet he wrote his best work on the despotic French monarchy, which he despised.
5) The statement above, if true, would most clearly support which of the following general claims about the writing of history?
a) historians should keep personal opinions out of their historical writing
b) the best history is not necessarily written by historians in sympathy with their subject
c) historians tend to write about historical subjects with which they sympathize
d) it is difficult to write objectively about the French monarchy

history - Ms. Sue, Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 7:08pm
Only one of the choices is supported by the statement. Which claim do you think is supported by the statement?
history - Jeff, Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 7:26pm
I think it's "B"
history - Ms. Sue, Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 7:31pm
Right! :-)
- history - Jeff, Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 7:35pm
  Thanks

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