It won’t happen in my lifetime, I hope that someday historians will step back and look at what we really KNOW and just try to tell that story. But for over a century (at least), most historians have been telling whatever story they wanted to tell (usually to advance an ideology) and they have simply twisted evidence to help themselves along.
At some point, there will be a renaissance in the field that might get us closer to useful truth. This is also true in Psychology, which could be a good field, but which is largely today just political posturing.
It's always seemed to me (an engineer, not an academic) that what we really KNOW about ancient times is mighty little. We know something about those civilizations that captured their history and thoughts in stone, but precious little, and often what the civilization in question wanted people to know. We have a little bit of ancient literature, not much and much of it in fragments or statements by later writers. I have often posed this question to students in Sunday School when discussing the Bible - In a thousand years, when some archaeologist digs up the ruins of your house, what will be left? Not a heck of a lot, I suspect. Could they determine much about us from this? Suspect not.
“But for over a century (at least), most historians have been telling whatever story they wanted to tell (usually to advance an ideology) and they have simply twisted evidence to help themselves along.”
Leftists have been doing the same thing. Is this something else?