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Dr. Aditi Mishra

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Articles by Dr. Aditi Mishra
Editorial Article

Who Tells the Past? Public History and the Historian in the Age of AI

A young student today can meet the past without ever opening a history book. A search engine supplies the first answer and a short video the first narrative, while a platform decides what appears next. Increasingly, the first "historian" a student talks to may be an artificial intelligence system. The shift looks ordinary, yet it raises a question that historians now have to answer. Who tells us the past when the historian is no longer the only interpreter of history?

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