Argument Quote by 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 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 what the evidence compels us to believe.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and…

— H. W. Brands

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

History is an argument without end.

— Pieter Geyl

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Hilary Mantel