Zitat des Tages über Historiker / Historian:
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
I've actually traveled quite a bit with various authors. Judith Miller and I toured the highlands in Scotland with Liz Curtis Higgs, and that was incredible fun. However, I love going with my husband, who - although he is not a writer per se, he is a historian and can give me a lot of insight on various historical locations.
I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.
I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.