History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
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