All Historical Narratives, Whether 6 Pages or a 700 page Book, are Biased

Before you scroll down and click the preview button below to read the 6-page narrative, consider this hypothesis.

"Whether it is called US History, African American History, Herstory, Critical Race Theory, or whatever the written historical account--it's influenced by human bias. It always has been no matter who tells the story."

Whether intentional or not, the bias is part of the human condition. There is so much to know in human history, or the history of a nation or a group/race of people, that it is nearly impossible to write it all. That's where the potential for bias arises. Since we can't write it all we make choices and decisions about what is important to know. Those choices and decisions are your biases. It's an error to think that even encyclopedias have included everything. Don't take my word for it, just read someone's version of any topic in history, or the present for that matter. Then read some more, and more, and there is always more. . .

Why I prefer the tapestry format

• Tapestry format is very useful to the “inquiry” method of learning, and the creative mind expressing itself.
• Use of imagery conveys a message of its own that might inspire curiosity or foster drawing inferences.
• A person can look at a phrase, a word, or a photo and take a moment to reflect on just that, even meditate on the attire of the times in a photo.
• Whatever conclusions and hypotheses one may discern from the facts generally comes from one's own mind.