Built Quote by Howard Zinn

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you…

— Philippe Falardeau

At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international…

— Antony Beevor

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news and you…

— Tom Morello

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time…

— John Henrik Clarke

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what…

— Nikki Giovanni

“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or…

— John Fea

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

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