History as it is stated in Brundage's chapter one, can be viewed by people not in the field as that same typical events have just happened, there is no insight as to how they have happened, whom key players were while this event happened, or even the reasoning behind why an event happened in the first place. I especially enjoyed the part of the revisionism, which is "when an interpretation entails a more sweeping challenge to an established way of interpreting a past event, process, or person." As a historian every event from our past should be looked at with this type of approach.
European's were the first to actually take this step during the enlightenment period. literary works written by Voltaire and Gibbon were the first of their kinds to question things such as the states and the rulers during this time. People today still use these works to question how society is supposed to be controlled and or how the people in it are supposed to react to people in power.
If works from voltaire and Gibbon were never written what type of world would we be living in during the present?
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