Popular And Professional History By Roy Rosenzweig

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Roy Rosenzweig suggests that popular and professional history creators should work together to provide accurate information to everyone. (Rosenzweig 140) Rosenzweig states, “Wikipedia’s view of history is not only more anecdotal and colorful than professional history, it is also—again like much popular history—more factualist.” (Rosenzweig 142) According to Rosenzweig, it is important that individuals acknowledge the study of history as popular or scholarly. (Rosenzweig 125) Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, produces popular history because it summarizes historical events and only takes them at face value. (Rosenzweig 121) Conversely, scholarly history interprets the facts and provides various outlooks on topics. (Rosenzweig 129) The author