Quotes About History

On the way home from school, we stop off for a slice of pizza -- Phoebe's treat. She says there's an upside to what they did to me today. I've marked my place in the annals of school history. She says, "They'll never get that bloodstain out.

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

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Captain Werner Von Bachelle of the 6th Wisconsin in General John Gibbon's Iron Brigade, who died on the Hagerstown Pike with his Newfoundland dog at his side, rests here as well.

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Conway and Ross referred to this self-serving memory distortion as "getting what you want by revising what you had." On the larger stage of life, many of us do just that: We misremember our history as being worse than it was, thus distorting our perception of how much we have improved so that we'll feel better about ourselves now.15 All of us do grow and mature, but generally not as much as we think.

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This table once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte," he said. "You mean the Napoleon we read about in our history book?" Staci asked. "The guy with his hand under his coat scratching his bellybutton?" Wendy added.

As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.

Maybe in ten or twenty years we'll look back on chemotherapy and gasp. Another generation may be appalled that we ever did this, dripped poison through a needle into a person's body to make him well. ?

Wilder's "truth" was less a matter of fact than of her memories, feelings, and convictions. Her work was based on facts but not factual. It was historical fiction, not history. Its chronology, and certain incidents and characters, were invented, altered, and fictionalized.

But the 1890s may also count as the first time in human history when market manipulation during a climate crisis crashed the world economy.

By 1867, there were only fifty Dakota left in Minnesota.67 That year, a baby girl was born just across the Mississippi, in a little house in the Big Woods.

Voters would long remember the obscene spectacle of Grover Cleveland and his lack of charity in a time of need. No Democrat would be elected president for the next sixteen years; Republicans would hold majorities in Congress for a solid three decades. Not until 1932 would a member of the Democratic party emerge with a different conception of the federal government and what it might do for the American people.

Often, if you want to write about women in history," the novelist Hilary Mantel has said, "you have to distort history to do it, or substitute fantasy for facts; you have to pretend that individual women were more important than they were or that we know more about them than we do."8 But when it comes to Wilder, we don't have to pretend.

One scholar has estimated that a third of Dakota homesteads were held by women a decade later.

The dispossession of the Dakota, the Homestead Act of 1862, and the war that they touched off set the stage for Laura Ingalls Wilder's life.

Many cherished plans have failed. Not only radio and telephone, but running water in the house, furnace heat, modern lighting and refrigeration, have all passed beyond our dreaming. Even the three-cent postage is a burden.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

We don't come from places. We come from time. From traumatic moments that cannot be undone.

It's not the past if it's not finished.