Blur Quote by Jerry Spinelli

“Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”

— Jerry Spinelli

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

— Donald Creighton

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“Love affairs, in their beginnings, are all about the present. But there is a point in each--an event, an exchange, some other unseen trigger--which…

— Kate Morton

“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or…

— Paul Ham

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

— Donald Creighton

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history.

— Phil Scott

“while we remain immersed in the study of personal incidents and details, as what such a statesman said or how many men were killed…

— John Fiske

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

— E. L. Doctorow