15 Historical Figures Who Were Nothing Like the Version We Were Taught
History tends to turn people into symbols. Complexity becomes flattened into lessons, contradictions into footnotes, and uncomfortable truths into silence. The figures we are taught to admire—or to condemn—often bear only a partial resemblance to the real people who lived, failed, contradicted themselves, and acted under pressures we rarely acknowledge. These are not revelations. They … Read more
