History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
While we read history we make history.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
History is only written from what remains.