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“...history is, as R.G. Collingwood suggested, a re-enactment of the past in the mind of the historian...”

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“No historian should be a nationalist. Nationalism consequently leads to the delusion and mystification of the historical facts, consciously or unconsciously, in favour of national interests, which in turn makes history basically a subjective vision system.”

Nationalism Historian Subjectivity

Author:Elmar Hussein

“The Christian historian, like the non-Christian, does valuable service if he does no more than to clear the minds of his audience of some of the nonsense of the slogans and mythologies of his era.”

History Historian Soli Deo Gloria Religious Right

Author:George Marsden

“He (Friedrich Engel de Jánosis) stated clearly that he was the last Engel de Jánosis, when in fact he knew he was not. He left behind his mother, wife, and daughter, all of them Engel de Jánosis. And then there were the Hungarian Engel de Jánosis, his aunts, uncles, cousins still alive in Pécs and in other towns and villages in Hungary. He knew this. They were not dead, not yet anyway, but in his mind, they were. Already, the historian was rewriting history.”

Past Historian Angels

Book:Where the Angels Lived: One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return

Source: Where the Angels Lived: One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return

“Given the focus on language, it should come as no surprise that this book deals with what individuals said and published … The new “linguistic” emphasis of modern scholarship has added to our understanding of the past … Throughout, “language” is not recovered divorced from its historical context, but linked to the individuals who used it, and to their (and others’) actions and activities”

Ideas Language History Historian Sources Texts Intellectual History

Book:Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914

Source: Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914

“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”

History Historian Prophecy Hindsight

Book:Philosophical Fragments

Source: Philosophical Fragments

“History and man made each other.”

Nature History Environment Influence Historian Nurture Anthropology Shape Nature Vs Nurture Make History

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One thing that I find very weird here in Australia is Latvians in Australia celebrate Latvian traditions by a calendar, not by the seasons as they do in Latvia. It’s a bit strange for me, everyone said a few weeks ago, ‘Merry Christmas,’ in Latvian, or maybe Winterfest, and here I was sweating like a pig saying, ‘Merry Winterfest!’ – Viktor Brenners, 2nd Generation DP”

History Drama Real Life Exploration Historian True Story In Depth

Book:Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

Source: Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

“I became an historian in order to preserve my own history forever- Dracula.”

Historian Dracula Vlad Tepes

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.”

Ignorance Historian

Book:Eminent Victorians

Source: Eminent Victorians

“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken by narrator Ava Bigtree in Swamplandia!)”

Historian Mourn Swamplandia

Author:Karen Russell