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Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K. — Robert Dallek
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan… — Robert Dallek
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him… — Robert Dallek
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks… — Barton Gellman
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples. — Claire Tomalin
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping… — Claire Tomalin
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. — Dan Jenkins
Leave history to historians. — Ali Babacan
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of… — Antony Beevor
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this… — Jim Cooper
History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and… — Ridley Scott
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What… — Rick Perlstein
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That… — Kenneth Baker
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten… — Albion W. Small
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians… — James Henry Breasted
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. — Bruce Jackson
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has… — Barbara Amiel
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated… — Louis Finkelstein
The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded… — James Buchan
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. — Richard Holbrooke
The best writers attempt to become alternative historians. — Colum McCann
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what… — Bill Viola
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual… — Niall Ferguson
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny… — A. S. Byatt

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