Its a Tough Life for those Historians

After reading parts of the book The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, it really opened my eyes to how easily historical stories and events can be different.  Both authors in this book, wrote two different biographies after talking to Hewes. This reminds me of the activity we did during our summer workshop at one of the stations where we read recollections from different people at the same historical event and how different each was.  It's tough as a historian because you can't just base your facts on one side of the story.  You need to find many primary sources to validate your story your about to tell.  I guess the question is how do you determine the best way to represent the information you acquire?  I definitely took advantage of our history books.  It's not something that you can sit down and write.  The amount of work and research that goes into the telling of each event is unreal to me.  It should almost make you feel at ease that history is at our fingertips and we get this information so easily thanks to the work of these historians.