Historians and journalists always have agendas, but if I want to find out what's going on in South Africa, I read Nadine Gordimer or John Coetzee because they offer novelistic truth. Justin Cartwright africaagendacoetzee Change image and share on social
Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama. Jeffrey Zeldman 1960saccessbarack share on social
Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong. Thomas P.M. Barnett americabackbush Change image and share on social
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy answeraskdeaf Change image and share on social
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. Craig Brown cattyconsummatecoo Change image and share on social
Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize him for his early reaction, for not returning at once to Washington, D.C. Robert Dallek bushcriticizeearly share on social
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. Stacey D'Erasmo abstractbodycorrupt Change image and share on social
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong. Jill Lepore assumeassumptionchild Change image and share on social
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K. Robert Dallek contentioncriticizedefend Change image and share on social
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. Gustav Stresemann assetcolonizationend share on social
