Ambeth R. OcampoA historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
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A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint. What a historian does is collect as much information as possible to help people understand what has happened in the past. However, history doesn't have a single, final word on anything because it is made up of all of our individual opinions.
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- A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.