Arguing for a New History[Textbook]:An Exploratory Rhetorical Analysis of the Tsukurukai's Arguments for Reforming Junior High School History Textbooks

Abstract

The facts only speak when the historian calls on them. It is he who decides which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.... It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Ceasar's crossing of that petty stream, the Rubicorn, is a fact of history, whereas the crossing of the Rubicorn by millions of people before or since interests nobody at all.