To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.
I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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