Back to that repeatedly-made point about historiography and wikipedia, here’s a fascinating example/teaching tool: a 12-volume history of the Wikipedia entry on the Iraq War.
This is historiography. This is what culture actually looks like: a process of argument, of dissenting and accreting opinion, of gradual and not always correct codification.
James Bridle, who produced the book, discussed the topic at a speech at dConstruct, that fascinated me. Imagine if the Library at Alexandria had a history button. Better still, imagine showing your students the equivalent of this for any history book or political narrative.
