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Every historian discloses a new horizon.
George Sand
Every
Horizon
New
Historian
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
E. L. Doctorow
You
Will
Tell
Like
Felt
Historian
Happened
Novelist
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
Time
Will
Rest
Few
Right Time
Correct
Historian
Very
Few Things
Happen
Conscientious
Right
Things
Things Happen
Defects
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
Buffalo Bill
Life
Time
Day
Man
Wonderful
Matter
Old
Will
Fighting
Some
Give
My Time
Written
Him
Greatest
Bull
Due
His
Historian
Sioux
Sitting
Any
Really
Who
Whose
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
Oliver Stone
You
Book
Will
Judgment
Omit
Tell
Some
Shape
Facts
Most
Make
Historian
Historians
Discrete
Very
Order
Length
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.
Timothy D. Snyder
Fashion
You
Business
People
Criticism
Please
Because
Understand
Go
Historian
Historians
Trying
Candy
Want
Explain
Then
Should
Avoid
The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.
Alison Weir
Life
Me
People
Girl
My Life
Perception
First
Matters
Other
Spend
Distorted
Sloppy
Absolute
Like
Because
Historian
Historically
Get
Trying
Really
Film
Right
Things
Elizabeth
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
Alistair Horne
War
World
Whatever
Interview
Rank
Visionary
Harvard
Status
Lieutenant
Given
Write
He
Most
Commander
Historian
Account
Official
Committed
Anyone
After
Samuel
Act
Harbor
Navy
Right
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Appointed
World War
World War II
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce
Gossip
Historian
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.
Annie Jacobsen
Air Force
Air
Definitely
Someone
Studies
Force
Historian
Aficionado
Aviation
Who
As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism in America that, in large part, has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history. Those of us who teach American Religion have a responsibility to tell all of the story, not just the nice touchy-feely parts.
Anthea Butler
Religion
History
Racism
Responsibility
Nice
Christianity
Those
Tell
Martin
Part
Know
Parts
Historian
America
American
Just
African-American
Just One
Story
Us
Teach
Moment
Who
Large
Large Part
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Antoine Rivarol
Passions
Historian
Reason
Actor
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
Antony Beevor
Will
Thought
Think
Outrageous
Select
Leading
Because
Material
Historian
According
Means
Thesis
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
Barney Frank
Great
History
You
People
Encouragement
Humanities
Say
Would
Would-Be
Gingrich
About
Could
He
Study
Study History
Supporters
Because
Sciences
Historian
American
May
Want
American History
Social
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Who
Social Sciences
Nicest
Now
Thing
Profitable
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
Brendan I. Koerner
Death
Fool
Carnival
Parades
Inspired
Were
Historian
According
Tarot
Fanciful
Who
Figures
Cards
Images
I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.
Charles Marion Russell
Savvy
Historian
Happen
Incident
Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.
Christo
Art
Book
Own
Our
Projects
Wrapped
Entire
About
Written
Because
Historian
Process
Which
Meaning
Describe
Each
Reichstag
Now
Each One
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.
Colm Toibin
Work
Time
Wait
Defining
Lies
More
Attempting
Know
Readers
Another
Narrative
Narratives
Always
Go
Historian
Historians
Intelligent
May
Grand
While
Sweeping
Tone
You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that's why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.
David Cameron
You
Dangerous
Brilliant
Important
Own
Think
Extremely
Futures
Borders
Ability
Putin
Countries
Know
Self-Determination
Messing
Historian
Up
Stand
Stand Up
Choose
Europe
Why
One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
David Garrow
Great
Challenges
People
Three
Other
Interviewing
Some
Something
Call
Matches
Were
Historian
Version
Up
Conference
Modern
Being
Who
Multiple
Even
Event
Four
As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.
Deborah Harkness
You
Will
Evidence
Only
Take
Go
Historian
As Far As
Far
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Donald Kagan
Time
You
Ought
See
About
True
Because
Always
Question
Historian
Same
Anybody
Different
Place
Ask
Really
Different Place
I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.
Donald McCaig
Tried
Facts
Stick
Tight
Am
Historian
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Trust
Tell
Ability
Take
Shaped
Mass
Around
Historian
Information
Story
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Research
Difficulty
Possibility
More
Greater
Does
Material
Historian
Error
Mountain
Ironically
Intensive
Grows
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Me
Technology
Writing
Protection
Long
Research
Aided
Possibility
Tried
Having
Only
Both
Computer
Taking
Since
Institute
Longhand
Beyond
Enables
Historian
Error
Modern
Moved
Modern Technology
Process
Which
Notes
Use
Organizing
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