Contextualization Quote by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

“Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come…

— David duChemin

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that…

— Albert Einstein

“Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content…

— Manuel Castells

“Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.”

— Emma Donoghue

We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain and you…

— Michael C. McMillen

“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of developments in…

— Michel Foucault

“Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they…

— Henry Ford

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

— Joseph Campbell

“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

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical…

— Miranda Wilcox