Vanina Jane Tompkins in her essay "Indians": Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History explains the problems she faces when she tried to learn about Indians history. In the first part of her essay she speaks about her knowledge of Indians when she was a child and how he decide to investigate their history. Then, in the second part of her essay, she tells us about a research she made on Indians. She took many …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…past to find out the history as it really was. We can research to find more appropriate readings and to compare the different point of views of the authors and choose the one who seems to be more coherent. We have to place ourselves in the past. We have to imagine what the author intended to express, imagine their feelings, their fears, they motives to write, and we will be able to understand history better.