Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts Quotes

“Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment.”
― Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

“Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.”
― Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past