Explaining Quote by Donald Kagan

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

— Ken Burns

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

— Christopher Jackson

First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a…

— Anthony Hemingway

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

— A. J. P. Taylor

People have different ways of interpreting history.

— Nate Silver

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically…

— Grace Lee Boggs

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are…

— Dan Brown