[ SECRET POST #3133 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3133 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Guild]


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03.
[Harvest Moon: (More) Friends of Mineral Town]


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04.
[Gump, from Legend]


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05.
(Agent Carter)


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06.
[Jeeves and Wooster]


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07.
[Lupin III]


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08.
[Courtney Love & Kurt Cobain]


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09.
(SPN)


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10.
[Kasumi Goto, Mass Effect]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #448.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

Re: What makes someone an "expert"?

[chardmonster]

>Because there are A LOT of books about history not written by historians

A lot of them are shit. The problem with history is that it can be very political, very emotional, or both. So people seek out stuff that isn't quite true, emphasizes the less important thing, or is flat out wrong, but makes them feel good. And there's a huge market for this.

However, some of the books about history written by non-historians are really good! And if you work on a subject for years you can get good enough to be a historian. What you need to do is look at how other historians review the work--that is, multiple historians.

But there's no certification for a historian, so it's always going to be kind of nebulous. If I get a job outside my field and don't return to it for years and don't write any history, I'm not going to be calling myself a "historian" anymore because it'd feel silly.