Attention Quote by H. W. Brands

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 full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history…

— Sarah Vowell

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

“History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present,…

— John H. Arnold

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

— John Hope Franklin

While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies…

— Colm Toibin

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

— Michael J. Lansing