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Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and the presumption of guessing at the inner thoughts of historical figures. Unfortunately, the result has largely been not to demythologize the past, but merely to dehumanize and depersonalize it. As Roger Mudd has pointed out, 'Too many of today's historians [and biographers] ... seem to have forgotten that the writing of history is a literary art.


Markham Shaw Pyle


#history #writing #art

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.


Oscar Wilde


#historians #literature #description

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.


David Herbert Donald


#detective #historian #like #task #think

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.


James H. Breasted


#ancient #been #disclosed #displayed #east

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.


Michael N. Castle


#african #african american #american #angelou #believes

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.


Peter Conrad


#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

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.


Marshall McLuhan


#ads #any #archaeologists #day #discover

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.


Thomas Kuhn


#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

Every historian discloses a new horizon.


George Sand


#every #historian #horizon #new

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.


Jil Sander


#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer






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