“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge… — J. H. Hexter Copy Share Image
“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating… — James Ferguson Copy Share Image
“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas,… — Deanne Williams Copy Share Image
“The hardest task for the historian… is to consider the evidence without prejudice. We all have prior agendas and tend to find… — Christopher Evans Copy Share Image
“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And… — Americo Castro Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading. The erotics of reading for me -- its moment of trembling pleasure -- lie in those times when I realise that… — Greg Dening Copy Share Image
“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history… — Paul Cartledge Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
“I have taken a different approach. One that I hope is more easily accessible to the reader’s emotional imagination, though less analytically… — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.” — Michael J. Lansing Copy Share Image
