Historical Revisionism

Del Tackett makes this comment in his teaching series called "The Truth Project":

If I can change your historical context, I can change the way you view the present.  This is the power of historical revisionism.

As I have been reading history over the last 5 years, I have grown to understand the nature of this truth.  By investigating what the history of the West is, I have come to understand better what my own history is, and therefore to understand what the nature of the present is.  To revise history is to change our understanding of ourselves, which leads to making different decisions, and responding to changes around us in a different way.