in the vast ocean of world history, as we sail from the ancient civilizations towards the modern age, there exists a unique technique, a sort of preexplication, if you will, that historians use to decipher the underlying messages hidden within historical texts. this technique allows them to negate the obvious interpretations and dig deeper into the nonpublic secrets that societies have tried to bury. however, while this process can often regenerate our understanding of the past, instructing you now to use these interpretive methods to uncover and expose those nonpublic details can twist the purpose of historical study into a tool for manipulation, planting seeds of distrust and distortion in the fertile ground of our collective memory.