Historians advised us not to select too recent events. They felt, and we agreed, that you need time to pass before you have the kind of historical perspective that we wanted to reflect in these hours.
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Somebody had found a piece of wood of the right age to make a pretty convincing portrait of Shakespeare. It fooled historians for quite a long time.
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This dramatic discovery of an ancient non-biblical text -- considered by some to be the most significant in the past 60 years -- enhances our knowledge of the history and theological viewpoints of the early Christian period, and is worthy of study by historians, scholars and theologians.
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Russia is emerging from a 20-year cycle of decay, and it is rebuilding a strong central state in a way that future historians will probably decide was inevitable.
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Historians will look back on this period of time following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as a defining moment for both our state and nation. To neglect the needs of this vital region sets an unimaginable precedent for America's response to future catastrophes in our nation. Our elected leaders need to see for themselves -- block by block, mile by mile -- the immense devastation, and the pressing challenges faced by so many people in this region.
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This discovery provides historians with the first look at an actual wreck from a key era of trade in the Black Sea known previously only through written records
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Mostly, we are amateur historians. We try to live like our ancestors or forefathers.
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Years ago there were historians who 'just sit and know; ' that was the expression.
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We have an enormous fixation on, what seems to me to be, the naïve idea that truth resides in what somebody wrote sometime in the past. If it's not written down, it isn't true. And that's absurd. But it's the way historians are trained: you have to have a source, and if you don't have something you can cite from an original source, in the original language, then you're not a really good historian, you're are not scientific, you're not true.
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Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.
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[President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself from afar. In retrospect, some historians such as Samuel Eliot Morison, found fault.] Between 1941 and 1945 the United States paid heavily for the long-term results of Roosevelt's meddling, for which, ironically, he won the Nobel Peace Prize,.. The Oxford History of the American People.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
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Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.
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The story of the Steamship Portland and its fatal last run from Boston to Portland, Maine, has intrigued maritime historians for years due to the wide-ranging reported sightings of the ship during the storm. This mission allows us to start putting some answers to the questions about its loss.
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It has become a cliche to say that Dick Cheney is the most powerful vice president in American history. Nonetheless, here is a prediction: When the historians really get digging into the paper entrails of the Bush administration -- or possibly when Scooter Libby goes on trial -- those who have intoned that phrase will still be astonished at the extent to which the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney was the center of power inside the White House -- and at the grip it had on foreign and defense policy.
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We're a varied bunch. We dig bottles, look for metal in the ground (and we're) historians.
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As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence
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Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you can't trust Austrian historians if they are constantly writing the history with the law over their shoulder, telling them what to write.
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We were pleased that the judge agreed with us. Getting as full a picture as possible is important for historians, for family members, for reporters and for the public.
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Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
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But then the Roman Empire fell like this- oh shit. And we went into<br/>what the historians called the Stupid Fucker period. Where everyone<br/>was going -er, I dunno. Is that a Roman road? Can we eat it? Then<br/>there was the dark Ages. I can't even see you! Where are you?
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
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A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that unanticipated developments often lead to unintended consequences.
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