History
- 2008 — Edmund S. Morgan
- 2002 — John Hope Franklin
- 1996 — Peter Gay
- 1990 — C. Vann Woodward
- 1984 — George F. Kennan
- 1972 — Henry Steele Commager
- 1967 — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1957 — Allan Nevins
- 1952 — Carl Sandburg
- 1948 — Charles Austin Beard
- 1937 — Charles M. Andrews
- 1927 — William M. Sloane
- 1918 — William Roscoe Thayer
- 1910 — James Ford Rhodes
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism’s high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. Sunday Times: Books (London, April 21, 1991)
“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)