Absolutely Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes,…

— James Ferguson

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do…

— Lauren Willig

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is…

— George Santayana

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these…

— Ferdinand Christian Baur