Bias in Historical Literature

Rebecca Graf
5 min readJun 21, 2022
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In a perfect world, historical pieces would be unbiased. History books, biographies, and other non-fiction works would not be slanted in the direction of any particular opinion. Yet we do not live in a perfect world. Bias words can be found in anything including fictional and nonfictional historical works.

I’ve heard it said that history is written by the winners. They are the ones left standing so it is their…

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Rebecca Graf

Writer for ten years, lover of education, and degrees in business, history, and English. Striving to become a Renassiance woman. www.writerrebeccagraf.com