Yeah – and it’s an ongoing, common practice. I like using history as a helpful tool for putting the present and future into a context, as well as things like logic, science, philosophy, reasoning, ‘common sense’ and whatever other tools are available to me.
But yeah – history is written by the historians; and not all historians wear Tweed jackets and hover over dusty books. Some have hammers and chisels.
Such is how it is.