What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
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I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.