Study the past, if you would divine the future.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.
I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
The study of history is in the truest sense an education, and a training for political life.
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.
At BYU, I discovered history, then historiography. I became fascinated with the study of historians and historical trends, with the idea that the way we remember the past changes and shifts with our own preoccupations.
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist…. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.
