Absorb Quote by David Christian

“It is not that the historian can avoid emphasis of some facts and not of others. This is as natural to him as to…

— Howard Zinn

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

“Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No geographer would…

— David Christian

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and…

— Peter Morgan

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

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and…

— David Olusoga

“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae…

— Masha Gessen

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

— Maynard James Keenan

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin