Should you be pedantic about the clerical errors you see in a History reference book?

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Yes, but don't be obnoxious or smartass about it. There is always the possiblity that your instructor and the course material are right, or at least not completely wrong. Foreign names might be used with different transliteration schemes at different times, etc.

But it is an essential part of science to prevent errors through (peer) review and it isn't too early to start that habit now. With hard sciences this is about the reproduction of experiments, with history it is about sources and the conclusions one draws from them.

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