Quotes About Historical sources

However distorted by the eyes of white masters, the courageous struggles for black freedom during the American Revolution are still evident in the historical sources. Behind every advertisement for a runaway slave lies a saga of heroic proportions:

The inter- view is about the past—like all other historical sources, it provides us with factual information that can be verified and critically scrutinized—but is of the present...These are living voices, voices that speak with us now

Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of Veneration Without Understanding. Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.

these sources were not intending to present what we think of as historically accurate information; that's a modern imposition on these Gospels that they can't bear.

I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.

Although there was no reliable way of dating periods, there was no shortage of people willing to try. The most well known early attempt30 was made in 1650, when Archbishop James Ussher of the Church of Ireland made a careful study of the Bible and other historical sources and concluded, in a hefty tome called Annals of the Old Testament, that the Earth had been created at midday on 23 October 4004 BC, an assertion that has amused historians and textbook writers ever since.

One of the signal virtues of Halbrook's scholarship is his willingness to let historical sources speak for themselves. Many professional historians who write about the Second Amendment expect the reader to take on trust that the author knows what people were thinking when the Bill of Rights was adopted.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

Although Elizabeth had a horror of being embalmed and directed her remains to be wrapped up in cerecloth (waxed linen), sources suggest she probably was embalmed, as this was standard practice for royalty at the time.

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

Hesiod was virtually a contemporary of Ezekiel. Another of the major sources on the ancient history of the Middle East is, of course, Flavius Josephus

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.