In Gaddis’ chapter, “Seeing like a Historian”, Gaddis brings up the interesting question of representation. He talks about how historians’ own perspective and how they can alter the history. The most interesting part that I took from the reading was the discussion of whether freedom could exist without oppression. This really made me think about it in a way I never thought. I always thought of those items as different entities, but without each other what would the other even be. That is when seeing as a historian comes into play. For me I take events and make a conclusion based on common thoughts about that event. But what I must transform into is taking an event and understanding that many different actions can lead to an event and there might be many answers not just one overarching conclusion that makes looking at a certain event easy. This is how the freedom and oppression come into play. It is easy to say you know what freedom is but when you really think about freedom is what we think it is because we are all we have to base it off of. We must look at the different levels of freedom and not just ask do you have freedom or not.