The phrase "constructing history" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to the process of making, writing, or shaping history. For example, "By researching and writing about the past, historians are in the process of constructing history."
s a result, the novel's more serious concerns — deliberations on how the past suffuses the present, the ultimate unknowability of another's grief, the painstaking task of constructing history in the absence of witnesses, the weight of emotional inheritances — are swamped by less interesting minutiae.
They also increasingly exhibited diverse approaches to the practice of constructing history: some considered their work with studied detachment, scrupulously filling in major events such as wars and coronations; others, conversely, sought a kind of "secret history" of understudied or little-known events.
Citizenship and Constructing History An understanding of history revitalizes citizenship in an era when students can witness history being constructed.
I am constructing histories from a necessarily subjective view, which is no more or less real than any of the other attempts to describe that time or event".
By constructing histories of current problems and historicizing his own position and concerns, he rendered history useful to the present.
For the same reason, I'm less interested in the truth or accuracy of this, or any, construction of history than in the need and tendency to construct history more generally.
But in a final gallery this carefully constructed history nearly collapses.
It's a history, and it's a constructed history of systemic racism all over the country.
This lovingly constructed history... evokes not only the dynamism of the American past but also the constant presence of war and violence in our national life.
He seems laboring to construct history -- almost atom by atom -- against a case that brands him, essentially, one of the worst men on the planet.
Toll's diligently constructed history, stretching from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway, calls attention to vital yet lesser-known episodes, including the desperate defense of Wake Island and the secret efforts of America's code-breakers.
