Analysis Quote by Herbert Butterfield

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

— Bruce Catton

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how…

— David Christian

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough

Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that…

— Jacqueline Winspear