What/where is the past?

Since I spent the weekend with no internet connection so I didn’t have a class contact sheet, so I convinced my brother to skim through the chapter so we could at least have a decent discussion. A quote we both thought was interesting and true was, “I mean history in the sense of knowledge of the past, not the past itself.” That quote alone tells me a lot about Fasolts thoughts on history alone. Just like how we write protocols in class, there have never been two identical accounts of how class went on, they might be close or share a few things but they’ve never been identical because everyone has a different take on how things actually happen. History in my opinion comes from everyone and anyone who gives an account of what happened in their life previously. But I think the most important question is who makes history, which is actually two questions when you think about it. From the way history is told, it would appear that those who take extreme initiative make history and become legends, but who actually knows if they were a legend? There were lots and lots of people involved in the civil rights movement, but only very few names are remembered. The other way I look at the question is, who’s actually deciding/creating the presently known history, which is also a part of politics. Those who pay to make the text books decide what goes in them. I read the paper a while back and found out that they were trying to remove slavery from the textbooks in a school district in Texas. A lot of people aren’t happy about it, but it seems like a major problem with our society is that those in higher power, make a lot of decisions for those in lower power or no power without taking their thoughts into consideration. I think fasolts ideas in general are common sense, or at least common to me.