“I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs” MenFeelsHumansDifferentFactsHappensInterestResultsCommonClassHappenedIdentityStructureHistoricalNotionCategoriesHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsCommon Experience Book:THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS Source: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS
“Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.” JusticeHappenedDependsReturnHistorical Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.” MayUseActionLawCoursesWrittenHappenedEssentialsTasksRemainsHistoricalVariousNarrativeSequenceWritten History Book:The New Psychohistory Source: The New Psychohistory
“I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.” FeltPiecesHappenedHistoricalSaintOddTomsResonanceGucciMcqueen Author:Hamish Bowles
“In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.” WritingSaidI CanBookSometimesCoursesHappenedHistoricalDocumentsObjectivityCopying Author:Alfred Doblin
“I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.” TryingKindI CanDoneStoriesTogetherGuyTurnsHoursRecordsPiecesHappenedHistoricalDisasterShipsCuriousBrokeCompareAnalysisVehicleFilmmakingSiteDocumentariesNew LifeWrecksRoboticsBroke UpOver 50Forensics Author:James Cameron
“You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.” ThinkingWritingWholeStoriesUsedTurnsThreeCareersNovelHappenedHistoricalShort StoryHistorical Novels Author:Hilary Mantel
“For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know, that is always different. It's always the case. We never know what happened then.” KnowsDifferentRealityFilmDifficultCasesHappenedClaimsHistorical Author:Michael Haneke
“Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.” LongMadeHappensCultureLanguageForceDifficultHappenedInformationPositionOceanHistoricalDecadesMade ItIslandsConspiracyVegasPuerto RicoRico Author:Nelson Antonio Denis
“I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.” WritingFeltCasesWrittenHappenedHistoricalHopefullyShakesFascinatedHistorical ContextHopefully Not Author:Rita Dove
“If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.” IfsYearsGovernmentPastLyingResponsibilitySupportHappenedBearsThousandResearchYears AgoHistoricalDeedsHolocaustPalestinianThousand Years Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.” WorldBelieveDoeFactsBodyChristianJesusStarsSinHappenedJourneyDependsBirthUniqueTraditionEmptyHistoricalArguingRevelationsVirginsEasterTombsShepherdsInfallibleBethlehemVirgin Birth Author:Marcus Borg
“I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms at the idea level, and through the work they have achieved, one of the most dignified historical examples that has happened in the history of the world.” WorldBelieveIdeasFormI BelieveLevelsHappenedExampleHistoricalRelevantWorld History Author:Bocafloja
“Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.” MomentsHappenedTeachingTerribleHistoricalSurvived Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.” PeopleIfsMenWritingFirstsBigsVoiceWhiteInterestingHappenedAccountsHistoricalEstablishmentNonfictionWhite ManReally InterestingUmbrella Author:Isabel Allende