History is not just “the past”. History is, specifically, the discipline interested in recording and creating narratives out of events that happened.
Historians - professional or otherwise - create history, and it is the duty of a historian - and the purpose of the discipline - to do so responsibly and truthfully.
Does that mean both the left frame and right frame of the OP are correct? The victors are historians because they told a story about how great they were?
History is not just “the past”. History is, specifically, the discipline interested in recording and creating narratives out of events that happened.
Historians - professional or otherwise - create history, and it is the duty of a historian - and the purpose of the discipline - to do so responsibly and truthfully.
Does that mean both the left frame and right frame of the OP are correct? The victors are historians because they told a story about how great they were?