James Hornfischer Quotes

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive.

That great dust-heap called “history.”

What history is about is human beings.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

History is a picture gallery where there are few originals and many copies.

History is not ancestral memory or collective tradition. It is what people learned from priests, schoolmasters, the writers of history books, and the compilers of magazine articles and TV programs.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

The word “History” is mostly made up of the word “Story”.

History is a table around which we can still sit and have a civil discourse.

The context of history proved invaluable.

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

You can't erase history.