A Search for Power by Lyle Koehler6/11/2023 ![]() Knopf, 1990) NO: Robert Royal, from 1492 and All That: Political Manipulations of History (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1992) Kirkpatrick Sale, a contributing editor of The Nation, characterizes Christopher Columbus as an imperialist who was determined toconquer both the land and the people he encountered during his first voyage to the Americas in 1492. Was Columbus an Imperialist? YES: Kirkpatrick Sale, from The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (Alfred A. William McNeill argues that historical truth is general and evolutionary and is discerned by different groups at different times and in different places in a subjective manner that has little to do with a scientifically absolute methodology.ISSUE 2. McNeill, from "Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians," The American Historical Review 91 (February 1986) Oscar Handlin insists that historical truth is absolute and knowable by historians who adopt the scientific method of research to discover factual evidence that provides both a chronology and context for their findings. Is History True? YES: Oscar Handlin, from Truth in History (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979) NO: William H. ![]()
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