> I don't like the subjectivist take on historical truth [...]

The work of historians is to make inferences based on incomplete and contradictory sources.

Historians aren't simple fact-checkers. They make judgements in an attempt to understand the sweep of history.

You can see what kind of work they have to do every time you stare at some bullshit narrative put out by a company about how really it was good for the local economy for them to run their fracking operation, and the waste water really was filtered three times so it couldn't be causing the overabundance of three-legged frogs, and last year they funded two scientific studies that prove it. (I just made this up, hope you get the idea.)