History’s potential misuse raises questions of who controls its telling

Evidence

The discussion of misuse raises further questions—by whom? For whom? Under what auspices? For what purpose and interest? A historian has a natural preference for answering this question historically, and tracing the stages. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1824

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Official history is engineered to blind public opinion for political ends; Historical knowledge gets co-opted for administrative manipulation; Distorted history tempts some to reject history altogether — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1852 (+9 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Official history is engineered to blind public opinion for political ends; Historical knowledge gets co-opted for administrative manipulation; Distorted history tempts some to reject history altogether — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1852 (+9 more)