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“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you…

— Yaa Gyasi

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“I did not understand, taking those pictures, that history must be collected while the subject exists. If not, what goes unrecorded can fill an…

— Susanna Daniel

“History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers.”

— Amber Kizer

“It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And…

— Angela Y. Davis

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

“Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.”

— Chaim Potok

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.”

— C.B. Huesing