Reflective History is easy to manipulate, because it is written after the time the history has passed, and therefore the historian can analyze and interpret the events he covers. So ofcourse most ancient history have been manipulated alot, while more recent history is less manipulated.
Just think 2000 years ago, if you could write, and had the right connections, then you had the power to create gods in holy books. Today those same talents might get you your own internet page amongst millions.
Our future history will probably only get better with the spread of education and technology. A president presents a message to his/her country or the world, and within mins/hours/days there are thousands (or even millions) of different opinion who presents their view on the message and situation. If Alexander The Great had been alive today then he would probably not been seen as something special - I´m sure there would be millions of "RawAlex" around the world doing character killing on his person every day ;-)))
At some point in the future we will probably have historians complaining that there are too many sources of information to NOT cut out important parts - I guess we are already there today - the amount of information created in 2004 must have been crazy compared with ex. the information we have from the "alexander the great" period of time.
I like the idea that most history is manipulated in someway, because it tells alot about humans, ex. our need to bring order into chaos - trying to shape the world around us in our image.
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"Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man."
~Henry B. Adams (Historian) 1838-1918
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