I do not believe that history is subjective. I think that history is objective.
Paige is referring to postmodern ideas and the idea of historicism. Historicism
is “the view that past beliefs, morals, and truths can only be understood in
relation to the cultural/historical periods in which they arise.” The events in
history actually happened and if you think about it by putting it in a common
situation it will make more sense. For example, lets say that you and I enter a
competition separately. There are 500 people that attend to watch us compete at
something. What we are competing for I have no idea. Lets just say for the sake
of the argument that it is a paper folding contest. So anyway 500 people show
up to watch us and in the end I of course win, but just by 2 seconds. Now if I
go around and say that I blew you out of the water and finished mine before you
had made one fold, don’t you think that all of those people that watched us
would say otherwise? And wouldn’t you yourself try and fix the mistake about
what really happened. So in simple terms what is recorded in history has been
found to be true either through archeology, personal witnesses, or other means
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