Historians Quote by Diane Ravitch

“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

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an eye to…

— Julian Barnes

“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,…

— Terry Nardin

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

“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

“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or…

— Paul Ham

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

— Michael J. Lansing

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts,…

— Howard Zinn

“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions…

— Timothy Venning