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“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

“History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of…

— Christopher Hill

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the…

— Susan Sontag

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.”

— Niall Ferguson

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

— Michael J. Lansing

“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely…

— Julian Barnes

“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“Imagine a society entirely absorbed in its own historicity. It would be incapable of producing historians. Living entirely under the sign of the future,…

— Pierre Nora