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The first history book was written by someone who wanted to control the narrative. Which is why history always sounds a little biased.

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Early history writing is often credited to Herodotus, a Greek writer of the 5th century BCE, who described his work as inquiry. Historians do recognize that accounts can reflect bias, but that was not why history writing began.

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