The misuses of history - Symposium, Oslo, June 1999 (2000)

Distorting history, or appropriating it for political purposes can take several forms: denial of historical fact, omission, falsification, fixation on a particular event, the proliferation of stereotypes and historical myths, to name but a few. Thus the importance of examining the misuse of history in both the distant and recent past, and ways of combating it. Rather than posit history with any sort of investigation is an ongoing process, continually correcting its errors.