Backgrounds Quote by Alan Bullock

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp…

— Tony Robinson

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or…

— John Fea

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history…

— James W. Loewen

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

“Without a good understanding of history how can we make informed and therefore good and sensible decisions about current issues? The future then can…

— Keith Tonkin

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that…

— Tony Blair

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich