Essays Quote by Umberto Eco

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

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

— Michael J. Lansing

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes…

— Simon Greenleaf

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

— Heather Mac Donald

“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to…

— Sara Sheridan

“some of history’s lessons here with respect to writing should be obvious: make a copy; back up your data; and beware of invaders.”

— Brian Carroll

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains…

— Lloyd deMause

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the…

— Shunroku Hata

“Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the…

— Hilary Mantel

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice…

— Philippa Gregory

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

— Deborah Harkness