By ArkyBeagle
Historians’ “customers” are other historians. We do have people building historically-rich entertainment product ( in the manner of Michener ) out of that grist. It’s hard to say that is worse than, say, just-television. One thing we get is actually good television – I consider “Vikings” a great deal of fun, and it has at least legend integrated in to a narrative framework.
Somebody has to popularize things or it just dries out. And I can’t tell you how much history of things long ago has changed just in the last five decades or so. The things didn’t change… but the story did.
It’s sad how little faith we have in nonfiction mass media.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705859
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