How Do We Know What's History?

The passage of time is key to looking back

I wrote about some various thoughts I had visiting museums in D.C. last week, and there’s one point I ran out of room for there, but I want to raise it here: how do we know what qualifies as “history”?

I thought about that because of this interesting display in the Wright brothers exhibit, on the fate of the early gliders and the first actual Wright brot…