The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.
Shelby FooteTags: history american-civil-war history-of-the-united-states
We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.
Steven C. RockefellerTags: history united-states history-of-the-united-states multiculturalism demographics-of-us ethnic-groups people-of-the-united-states syllabi
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.
'A Frenchman' - Alistair Cooke 'America'Tags: history-of-the-united-states
A history of the working class in the United States should, first of all, give a sense of what is meant by "the working class in the United States." It means most of us who live in the United States of America-which, unfortunately, has not been the focus of a majority of history books that claim to tell the story of this country. This doesn't make sense because without the working class there would be no United States. (From a certain point of view, this history book deficiency does make sense, given the biases built into our business-dominated culture.)
Paul Le BlancTags: history history-of-the-united-states
The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable.
Eric FonerTags: abraham-lincoln history-of-the-united-states
The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.
Mark R. JonesTags: history-of-the-united-states humorous-quotes
the city is full of three types of people, the first being soldiers, the other classes are politicians and prostitutes, both very numerous, and about equal in honesty and morality.
Mark R. JonesTags: history-of-the-united-states humour-quote
During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.
Mark R. JonesTags: history-of-the-united-states humorous-quotations
Charleston is not the center of the universe, but it should be. That is the persistent perception of many locals.
Mark R. JonesTags: history-of-the-united-states
In Charleston, temperance is a four letter word.
Mark R. JonesTags: history-of-the-united-states
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