Passage Summary: Mark wants history to be about personal experiences; Carla wants it to be about objective, general facts because personal views are too subjective.

Conclusion: Mark believes historians should capture the subjective experience of past events, while Carla believes they should avoid it.

Reasoning: Mark argues that direct experience provides the best understanding of history; Carla argues that such perspectives are biased and should be replaced by objective characterizations.

Analysis: To identify the point at issue, we look for the specific claim where one person says 'yes' and the other says 'no.' Mark explicitly advocates for capturing 'what it was like' to experience an event, while Carla explicitly rejects this in favor of 'objective characterizations.' Their disagreement isn't about whether the Battle of Waterloo happened, but about the proper professional standards for historians. Look for an answer choice that captures this fundamental clash over historical methodology.