What Color are Your Glasses?

Do you ever wonder where people purportedly writing about the same set of events get their information? Awhile back I had that experience when comparing how professors at Boise State and UC Santa Barbara wrote about the Reformation in Germany. The tone, some of the facts and the overall character of the articles is so different.

http://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/antillians/reformation2.html

http://europeanhistory.boisestate.edu/reformation/germany/reformingermany.shtml
(http://europeanhistory.boisestate.edu/reformation/germany/)