To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
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Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning.
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God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
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Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
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History repeats itself historians repeat each other.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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Study men, not historians.
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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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I am suspicious of teachers who claim to have invented the only successful method of bringing out the best in young performers, of theorists who claim to have invented a unique approach to analysis, or of historians who wish to reduce all the developments of the musical style of the past entirely to the determinism of social conditions.
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In choosing a juror, we look for someone who has established credentials, someone who has established themselves as artists, (art) dealers or historians.
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In the ski jump someone did the math wrong, and for 50 years the wrong person had the bronze medal. It wasn't until 1974 that a bunch of Norwegian historians got together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Winter Games, and one of them looked at the statistics in the ski jump and realized that an American, Anders Haugen, had actually won the bronze medal, and a Norwegian had gone to his grave thinking he had won. But Haugen was still alive--he was 85--and he finally got his bronze medal.
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Historians have recreated the parallel timeline that details what Lincoln and Booth each did, hour by hour, the entire day until their destinies met at the Ford Theater.
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