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:
“History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news
False history gets written every day
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the lesbian archaeologist watches herself
sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing,
asking the clay all questions but her own.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)