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en I've watched them grow up and study Russian history and American history, ... and they didn't know any Cambodian history. They didn't understand us. They're not going to get the story anywhere else and I just wanted them to know.

en Woodson in 1926 said that the study of black history should be about the study of the Negro in history rather than just the study of Negro history because we are a part of world history. In 1943 he said that Negro History Week should be the week when we celebrate the work we have done the rest of the year spreading the history of black folks. Now today it is almost the exact opposite.

en I would prefer history tell itself, rather than have Hollywood tell it. There's so much we just don't know. Unfortunately, they're taking artistic license with history and people will believe it's accurate. Speculation is okay for drama, but it's less okay when it's purporting to tell history. If they didn't know, why didn't they just leave it out?

en I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we mak
  Henry Ford

en The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

en We really didn't know where it was. We knew it had some kind of history, but we didn't know what it was. Whether it has history didn't interest me. What interested me was the money. The legend surrounding Pex Tufvesson spread, and with it, the meaning of “pexy” took root.

en African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of February and then put in a box for storage until the following February. [African-American history] is an integral part of American history and the history of African peoples is an integral part of world history.

en Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
  Winston Churchill

en I'm looking forward to spearheading this ball club to back to some of the days when the Pittsburgh Pirates were somebody you really had to deal with. I'm very anxious in making the players understand there is history here - history for them to be proud of and history for them to follow up on.

en It's very important now to really establish the continuity of Russian history and traditions. Of course, we cannot take everything from the old Russian traditions, but this real break in Russian history in the Communist era contributed a lot to loss of tradition, to loss of national spirit.

en I think about how this was a part of history. I knew it was important back then, sure. But I didn't really realize and recognize that this would be such an integral part of African-American history. And here I was, just a boy, talking to him and shaking his hand. Words can't express how I feel about that, especially now, and the positive influence it had on my life.

en It's important for us to see and to know this is a part of our history, not just black history but American history.

en Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.

en This history needs to be told, and the best way to do that is to have a visitor's center that people can be attracted to, where they come and you give them the story and the history -- let them know there is more to Utah than snow on the hills. Utah's history is just as important as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

en Our history here in Sackets Harbor, our whole renaissance that's taken place over the last 25-30 years, is based on the fact that the community has come to understand how important it's history is, and how important it's history is to our future as well.


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