Abstract Quote by Adele Logan Alexander

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

— Anonymous

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

— William Loren Katz

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe,…

— Russell Baker

Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people,…

— George Will

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a…

— Peter Ackroyd

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

— John F. Kennedy

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an…

— Félix J. Palma

“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived mainly from…

— Richard J. Evans