Hii.. I have been said to make a thesis statement on "Explain why history is so controversial"... Plzz help me out I'm really confused.. :confused:

Because sometimes some facts are hard to accept by people.

Have you ever participated in that situation in class where the teacher whispers a story into a students ear, and then the student is to repeat the story to the student behind them and so on until the last student hears the story? Every single time, the last student repeats almost a completely different story. In this example, each student can represent a decade of time.

As man and time changes, so do stories and tales. Sometimes because people don't want to believe some details of the actual truth; rather, they are too ethnocentric to believe that their country had done wrong, so the truth gets "bent" or re-shaped. Hence is why some believe that the holocaust never happened, or why we are told that Einstein was the father of the atomic bomb when that is not the actual truth, etc.

XenoSapien

At various points in time the story teller can, and will, embellish and/or omit crucial details, based upon what they think is more important. Also, there are examples of attempts to completely rewrite blocks of history.