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What is History?

What is History?. "The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Wright Morris. "If you do not like the past, change it." William L. Burton. "That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.” Polybius.

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What is History?

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  1. What is History?

  2. "The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Wright Morris

  3. "If you do not like the past, change it." William L. Burton

  4. "That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.” Polybius

  5. "The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact." YosefHayimYerushalmi

  6. "Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time." Frederick Jackson Turner

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