Chosen Quote by Howard Zinn

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as…

— Ludmilla Jordanova

emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives,…

— Anonymous

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

— Sherman Alexie

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

— Claire Tomalin

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts,…

— Howard Zinn

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

— R. A. Salvatore

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people,…

— Terry Pratchett

The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas…

— David Cannadine

The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he…

— Georg Brandes