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“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”
― Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
― Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
“Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.”
― The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
― The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the southern landscape”
― Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
― Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; history is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.”
― The Holy Family: Critique of Critical Critique
― The Holy Family: Critique of Critical Critique
“We stood by and allowed what happened to the Great Plains a century ago, the destruction of one of the ecological wonders of the world. In modern America, we need to see this with clear eyes, and soberly, so that we understand well that the flyover country of our own time derives much of its forgettability from being a slate wiped almost clean of its original figures.”
― American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
― American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
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