“ I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis Antony Beevor
“ Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes, pace, and plot. For this reason, the di… James Ferguson
“ Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities. William Cronon
“ The distinction between "paid labor" and "housework" implied in working-class men's yearning for the domestic ideal persisted in later-nineteenth-century analyses of women's unpaid labor and was event… Jeanne Boydston
“ The bible is history. Remember that it is not a book. It is a library. It contains many kinds of books, letters, songs, and histories, along with the poetry of mythology. We sometimes separate history… David C. Alves
“ Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. Marc Bloch
“ History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative… Dana Arnold
“ Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to cre… Simon Sebag Montefiore
“ I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from it by disgust—What is it, but a miserably mortifying detail of crimes and follies?—of the guilt… Charlotte Turner Smith
“ The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothin… Thomas Szasz
