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“Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le passé, non l'avenir)”

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“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.”

Fiction History Historical Historian Human History Movies Literary Works Fictional

Author:A.E. Samaan

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as a dirty word. At the very least it sounds untidy - just so: if historians treat the past in too tidy a manner they lose a great deal...It is precisely the ability to embrace complexities while making sense of them, and to think flexibly about diverse phenomena at distinct analytical levels, that characterises historians' purchase on the past.”

History Historian Eclecticism

Book:History in Practice

Source: History in Practice

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

Past History Historian

Author:Jerome Buckley

“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”

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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.”

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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”

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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