Public History Quotes
- [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main… — Rebecca Solnit
- The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be… — John Quincy Adams
- The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir
- A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation… — Natasha Trethewey
- What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention… — William S. Paley