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To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as…

— Walter Benjamin

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

“The philosopher R. G. Collingwood once observed that the past as past was wholly unknowable. What was knowable was something different: the elements of…

— Ceri Crossley

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post…

— Paul Fussell

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

— David Von Drehle

“Identification with the past is an intuitive, imaginative process which seeks as its fulfillment a perception not merely of the relevancy of the past,…

— Robert W. Hanning

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

— Alfred Kazin

“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present,…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the…

— Rudolfo Anaya