Quotes About History

Are you going to tell kids that Thomas Jefferson didn't believe in Jesus? Not me!' a textbook editor exclaimed to me.

Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism.

When confronting a claim about the distant past or a statement about what happened yesterday, students—indeed, all Americans—need to develop informed skepticism, not nihilistic cynicism.

The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class. —KWAME NKRUMAH

The finding that enduring religious belief systems make us more amenable to the commands of authority also is affirmed by the historical realities surrounding many cases of mass killing and genocide.

Despite their continuing efforts of denial and revisionist interpretation, however, there is now widespread recognition that the Turkish destruction of the Armenians between 1915 and 1923 stands as the first "total genocide" of the twentieth century.

1803 -  The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubles the size of the U.S.     The

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

1812 -  U.S. declares war on Britain (War of 1812)   The

Human migration seems to follow a certain pattern, from eastern Africa into modern Israel then up through modern Turkey and into eastern Europe, where they worked their way west.

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself

Caesar and Augustus both have months named after them (July for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus).

Nevertheless, economic historians agree that the first Industrial Revolution was the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals, plants, and fire.

Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.

The Buddhists succumbed to the Muslims, the British brought in Christianity, and now the Muslims decide one faction of their religion is better than the other.

Shelly pulled out another crate. "People back then were the original recyclers, weren't they? Wooden crates, reusable glass soda bottles. That was kind of cool. Why did we ever stop? Now we have plastic bottles littering the ocean.

Jack's dad had started smoking during the war, so he'd grown up around the habit.

When you understand a prickly person's history, you develop compassion for them.

This is called the Three Muses," Barbara said, pride evident in her voice. "One of my favorites, it was installed in 1913. The goddesses represent History, Science, and Art. The sculpture was created by Julia Bracken Wendt

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .

Badger nodded towards the trenches. "Woolley and the rest of 'em dig to uncover past civilizations. We dig to bury our own.

Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.