Statues vs textbooks: the two fronts where historical figures get re-evaluated

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Why almost no historical figure looks the same to historians at home and abroad How much of a historical figure's surviving image was built by their own propaganda The gap between what a historical figure did and the one sentence they are remembered for A historical figure's reputation is usually rewritten within two generations of their death Who decides which dead people are allowed to count as major historical figures How a school curriculum decides which historical figures every child must be able to name What it takes to demote a historical figure from hero to footnote Historical figures in textbooks are chosen for what they symbolize and not for how typical they were. Century categories are too coarse to date anyone who worked across a turn of the century Teaching with historical figures shows students that character shapes events and hides the structures.

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