求助:XDF-26第三题, 谢谢!

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求助:XDF-26第三题:
 

原文请看下面, 我已经把对应段加黑, 请问这里的handicaps如何理解?

谢谢!

问题是3. Which of the following is the best example of writingthat is likely to be subject to the kinds of "handicaps"referred to in line 27?
(A) A history of an auto manufacturing plant written by an employee during an autobuying boom
(B) A critique of a statewide school-desegregation planwritten by an elementary school teacher in that state
(C) A newspaper article assessing the historicalimportance of a United States President writtenshortly after the President has taken office
(D) A scientific paper describing the benefits of acertain surgical technique written by the surgeonwho developed the technique
(E) Diary entries narrating the events of a battle writtenby a soldier who participated in the battle

PASSAGE 26
* Historians sometimes forget that history is conunu- ally being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their
  own history, of course, which may impinge in unex-
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  pected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when "new pasts" will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history.
* In the fall of 1954, for example, C. Vann Woodward delivered a lecture series at the University of Virginia
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  which challenged the prevailling dogma concerning the history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation in the South. He argued that the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not only codified traditional practice but also were a determined
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  effort to erase the considerable progress made by Black people during and after Reconstruction in the 1870's. This revisionist view of Jim Crow legislation grew in Part from the research that Woodward had done for the NAACP legal campaign during its preparation for
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  Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward's lectures. The lectures were soon published as a book. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a
25) preface to the second revised edition. Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition "had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Revolu- tion published in 1776." That was a bit like hearing
30)Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense, which had a comparable impact. Although Common Sense also had a mass readership. Paine had intended to reach and inspire: he was not a historian, and thus not concerned with accuracy or the
35) dangers of historical anachronism. Yet, like Paine, Woodward had an unerring sense of the revolutionary moment, and of how historical evidence could under- mine the mythological tradition that was crushing the dreams of new social possibilities. Martin Luther King,
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  Jr.. testified to the profound effect of The Strange
  Career of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement by praising the book and quoting it frequently.

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charmant

A?

不知道答案。如果这个人的例子不明白就看下面的托马斯佩恩。他主动承认了他在书中犯下的年代错误。因为他不是历史学家，所以会犯dangers of historical anachronism(年代错误)

是不是说，非内行人员犯下的错误？

由一个员工写汽车制造的历史，可能他会有自己的见解，但是因为他不是专业历史学者，所以可能会犯下一些错误？