The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
“The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very… — Kenneth Baker Copy Share Image
“Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
