“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.” PeopleStoriesPastNamesHistory Author:A. J. P. Taylor
“History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.” StoriesHistoryRecordsAccidentsScarIllogicalHinges Book:Heart Mountain Source: Heart Mountain
“No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.” MatterStoriesGrowsHistoryRecordsTalesDustFablesDegeneratesLapsesFuzzyTime Lapse Author:Isaac Asimov
“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.” WorldWayMadeStillsTwoStoriesCultureHeavenHistoryHumourMetsJokesBlindHistoricalEmpiresHandfulAstonishingContagiousBulliedStoutBlind DateGreat Historical Author:A. A. Gill
“The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.” HumansStoriesLostProcessCommonSilenceHistoryTerribleEqualWasteCharacteristicsTragic Author:Gloria Steinem
“For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.” HumansHas BeensStoriesCultureGirlHuman BeingsHistoryOur LivesListeningFemaleImportanceTreatedStorytellingGossipIgnoredDiscouragedSeriousnessMarginalized Author:Gloria Steinem
“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.” MenHumansStoriesRaceHistoryRecordsCenturyFilledDeedsHuman RaceGreat MenSexismVolumeTwentieth CenturyCompleteness Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters