"The choice of narrative is an important way of making the facts speak. But this was rarely recognised by nineteenth-c…"

"What really happens is that the author discards the human persona but replaces it by an 'objective¿ one; the authoria…"

"Take one of Voltaire's swift shining shafts of wit: "History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead."…"

"HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip."

"Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul."

"In a certain sense all men are historians."

"Historians . . . proceed inferentially. They investigate evidence much as lawyers cross-question witnesses in a court…"

"The treatment of the period of Reconstruction reflects small credit upon American historians as scientists. We have t…"

"For her class of people, a “professional historian” is a historian with academic status. They are very status-conscio…"

"History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these te…"