Confined Quote by Michael Rostovtzeff

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort…

— H. W. Brands

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a…

— Peter Ackroyd

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived mainly from…

— Richard J. Evans

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

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

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who…

— David McCullough

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

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

— Dr. John

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

— Donald Kagan

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