Honest evaluation of history with a human twist
History is often viewed as sacrosanct, a set of clear data points connected by causality and chronology. The stories we tell our children are tied to facts, but real history is as subjective as well-researched crime fiction. The data lay the path at our feet, but the teller draws the connections, creates the context, and ascribes the motivation.
Standard historical analysis eschews attributing motivation to archaic actors, but, through careful application of current psychological concepts, a new form of study, psychohistory, is born.
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