
Perspective
An analogy I often use in class to differentiate between point of view (POV) and bias is to imagine that there is a crime with two witnesses. One witness sees the crime, the other is around the corner and hears the crime. In history when we consider multiple points of view we have to be careful not to simplify it as a "bias." Bias can be misleading because we often discount a voice in the story if we think it is biased. Point of view is deeper. In the analogy, each witness ha