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 Don't our traditional forms of information communication, notably "the book" and especially "the textbook" contribute to our belief in linear history? 


Yes because in most books and text books there are always timelines that shows they support linear history. Most textbooks use linear history instead of the other forms because it is easy for students to understand it, Another thing with linear history models it is very easy to to see what happened and when did it happened. It may not have the whole cause and affect cycle like the other from of interpreting history but in some cases it does not matter. Researchers can easily find when and where a major event happened using linear. They cannot do that with the other forms of history.