How did history get so hard?

A few days behind schedule, I am sitting here at my computer toiling away on writing a history of online role playing games. I am struggling alot more than I thought I would. Not because I don't have ample notes, timelines and examples, but because I am all to aware of the social construction of history.

There was a time when history was truth to me. Factual; undisputable; it is what it is, cause history don't lie. Like math and science, which are made up of numbers, and numbers don't lie... History was what happened ... events put down objectively on paper - 'they' told me so, and for a long time, I believed them.

But after too many sociology classes and many many conversations that introduced doubt on everything we "think" we know, I am all to aware that everything is constructed. Everything is contextualized and relative. History is nothing more than selective memory, from a particular point of view. Choices of what to include and what to exclude is based on relatively arbitrary decisions by the author or to be a little more objective, secondary constructed categories created outside of the author.

In the end - history should be more aptly titled "The History of America from a middle-upper class educated individual" or "The History of America from the point of view of someone who struggles to read and write" - Although both 'histories' could cover the same time period, and the same events, the socio-economic positions of the authors would set the histories worlds apart.

With this in my head, my constructed categories pre-determined, I am trying my best to detail an objective, uninfluenced history of times, events and artefacts that exist(ed) outside of who I am as an author.