Bob,
A very good article.
Unfortunately we live in a time of kings. The kings own the scribes and the scribes give the kings description to their writings, their writings then become history, as bastardized as that is, and the rest of the world learns the history as described by the kings.
True history and its meaning is lost forever, except for those who analyze the documents of the period and understand the history as it was lived by the people who made the history. All sides of the history.
Huey