On the Issue of Group History vs Individualistic Historical Narratives

Basics

• In recent discussion on how history (in the "real world" as well as simple smaller scale studies such as "who discovered what" in science/medecine etc) is told, there is a debate as to whether it should be told as a story of "Geniuses and Heroes" (In the most extreme case "Great Man Theory" ) or as a story of collective history of the people's struggle (In the most extreme case ultra-collectivist thought of leaders/inventors being irrelevant due to being inevitable, or even being called abstract historical creations of sorts)
• Granted as is cleche with these issues "BalAnCE iS kEy", however it is relevant to the feilds of Crediting Original Creators , and Education to kind of get a concrete policy on this
  • Scientific literature in many ways has done this via Citations

Internal Links

• Copyright
• Invention

External Links

• A Video by Hank Green of the Youtube Channel Vlog Brothers titled "How We Teach: Individualist Stories" (great quick summary/insight on this issue)
• The Wikipedia Page on Great Man Theory
• The Wikipedia Page on People's History
• The Wikipedia Page on Social History
• The Wikipedia Page on the book "A People's History of the United States"
  • This is an nonfiction book by a political scientist outlining their view of USA history, mainly (as obious by the title...) from the perspective of the people (ie people's / social history)
    • It was so controversial it has become a member of the Banned Books