History Quote by Ralph Snyderman

“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act…

— Diane Ravitch

“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,…

— Terry Nardin

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an eye to…

— Julian Barnes

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“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 has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical…

— Miranda Wilcox