Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“History does not always conform to what the dominant scholarly theories of court historians may lead us to expect. In his essay ‘The Task of the Modern Historian,’ Thomas Babington Macaulay observes that historians may formulate valid theories of what they would logically expect to have happened in a particular era, but unfortunately their theories soon displace any interest in the truth about what did in fact happen. They have been ‘seduced from truth, not by their imagination, but by their reason.’ In today’s context, the dominant narratives explain history by reference to theories of race relations. Historical explanations which do not fit comfortably within these theories are treated with skepticism or dismissed as false.” (08/26/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-scholarly-theories-impede-search-historical-truth