In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors…Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story,...

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation and moral standards. A...

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt...

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things, and to do business himself, if called upon, who hath both civil and...

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

I feel like I’ve always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton’s opinion of the great }

The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it’s my professionthat alarms you.This is why few people ask me to dinner,though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to be scary.I wear dresses of sensible...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the...

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the merely ordinary fall into much the same pattern, give or take an honorary...

The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn’t leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful...

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad to comply with his request to give him my impression.The work is a...

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

I’m a historian in my own mind.

Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent – Le passé, non l’avenir)