I think Quote by Steven Knight

“It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed…

— Leila Aboulela

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

— Norman Mailer

“On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that…

— James Fenimore Cooper

The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about…

— Neil MacGregor

“Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. Stated so baldly, this notion-that the indigenous peoples of the…

— Charles C. Mann

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons…

— Deborah Harkness

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed…

— Charles Lamb

“We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they…

— Gary Goldhammer

“So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

“life in western Europe in 1500 was very different from what it had been even 50 years earlier.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth…

— Reinhold Niebuhr