The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
History is written by the victors.
History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.