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“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”

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Book:A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Source: A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.”

“I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.”

People Facts Records Like You Approach Like Me Historian Good Writers

Author:Shunroku Hata

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

Ends Quality History Records Fundamentals Primaries Historian Fidelity Accuracy Impartiality

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

“It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.”

Ifs Christian Church White Records Century Tragedy Height Historian White Supremacy Twentieth Century Supremacy

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.”

People World Writing Years War Done Stories Reading Records Army Surface War Of The Worlds Historian World War Ii World War I Scratches Writing And Reading

Author:Rick Atkinson