Citations Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the…

— Barbara Tuchman

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

— Michael Ondaatje

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

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

“Yet historians still start their books with a ritual lament about 'the sources' and their inadequacy. The lament is not entirely insincere (though it…

— Mary Beard

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have…

— Anonymous

I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think the most…

— Dana Goldstein

“As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.”

— Nicholas Carr

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

— David Christian

“The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

— Andrzej Duda

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

— Adele Logan Alexander