When I was in High School History was the only subject I was good at. In fact the student counselor wanted me in the History Honors class. The truth was I was more interested in spending my free time playing Galaga which was one of the first video games placed in stores around the city. So after a few days being given a lot of reading and history assignments I went back to the office and got out of the class.
The reason I was considered "extraordinary" (Miss Sacharia's words pardon the spelling) is because to me history was like a long story and I do mean story, because one of the things that becomes patently obvious is the fact that history is told by the murder's and not by the dead. There is a source that claims to be:
The journal of Christopher Columbus (during his first voyage, 1492-93) and documents
I loved to read the journals from real people and Christopher Columbus's West Indies logs fascinated me. Today however they are lost, right! What I see online these days are Excerpt, which if you know history is really the best way to leave out information you don't want known and for that reason alone such is suspect.
So how do I know history is being changed even today. Well when I went to read the west indies logs they were nowhere near as long as they are today. So there is more data then there was, which turns the suspicion of Excepts into a knowing based on previous experience and knowledge.
So what do you think about history?