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When living through history you may think that you are not bias or your opinions have not clouded the way you understand a historical event. Unfortunately, that’s not true, all of us would love to believe that we are not to bias towards anything but as humans, we pick sides whether we intended to or not. If there were three people at one event and they all wrote down what they saw and heard each one most likely has three different stories with the same underlying peak. When reading Why Learn History the first example of this can be seen when the author talks about “Our Virginia Our Past and Present.” Virginia has a past of black men being soldiers for the union, but the book goes on to that there were lots of slaves that were soldiers for the Confederacy. This is incorrect. In this case yes it was a timeline of events but these events didn’t happen. Now days its hard to tell what is real and what is fake; 82% of students couldn’t tell the difference between an ad and a news article (Why Learn History, 3). Sorting out what’s real and what’s fake is part of the problem, how can you make a chronological record when you don’t know what information is true and what is false. It becomes increasingly hard to find the real history when every year history is rewritten to hit the new standards we have created (Who Owns History, xi). Historians and citizens face problems such as whether or not the timeline of events are true as well as human bias when trying to get to the real historical chronological record....