Kate Williams Quotes
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
Williams, Kate. "The Life of an Historian." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 15 Jan. 2015.
This is something that most nations and groups of people indulge in. Democrats considering the New Deal and Republicans expounding on the Presidency of Ronald Reagan are two classic instances. In this case Petri was particularly referring to Southerners who extoll the virtues of the Confederacy and the Confederate soldiers, ignoring the fact that they had committed treason to preserve one of the most cruel and evil institutions in human history. At the same time, they recall every disgraceful act of looting and destruction of Civilian farms and factories and ignore the Northern behavior after the Confederate defeat where no treasonous and rebel army in history had ever escaped not only retribution but all accountability as well. Internationally, almost every conflict in the world is characterized by this behavior on both sides.
He argues that it is erroneous to assume motivation and position of individuals at a particular time or with respect to a particular event based on positions and writings that they take later---excepting memoirs. The particular context of Lloyd’s remark was in response to a question of what Thomas Jefferson’s position might have been on several Constitutional provisions given his correspondence post 1800. Lloyd argues that Jefferson’s trials as President later then shaped his views while at the time of the Constitutional convention, he had not had those experiences and were not influenced by them. People change their minds and political philosophies and there is the ever present exigencies of the day that affect views.
Countess of Blessington
President Donald Trump was extremely egocentric
Kate Williams is a British jazz pianist and composer who formed the Jazz ensemble, Kate Williams Quartet with saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, flautist Gareth Lockrane, bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer David Ingamells, among others.
