Best quotes by Jill Lepore on History

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• ‟ The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

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• ‟ History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

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• ‟ Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

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• ‟ History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

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• ‟ Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.

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• ‟ The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

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• ‟ No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

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• ‟ Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

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• ‟ History is only written from what remains.

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• ‟ Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

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