Is History Dangerous?

History: harmless and naïve, or a subject deadly in the wrong hands?

Is History Dangerous? Just ask them. (Photo credit: Pixabay)

History is in a fascinating grey area between the sciences and humanities. It is unique in its conception in that history is in fact more a tool than anything else, akin to the discipline of engineering, in which materials are manipulated to achieve one end or another: to build a chair, a car, or a plane. But…