Defined Quote by G. M. Trevelyan

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose…

— F. M. Powicke

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left…

— A. J. P. Taylor

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash…

— Erica Jong

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

— Leo Tolstoy

You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order…

— Eben Moglen

History is past politics; and politics present history.

— Anonymous

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to…

— John Robert Seeley

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be…

— Raymond Williams

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering,…

— David McCullough

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at…

— Pierre Clastres

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly