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• Faith of a Historian.
• Very early in my professional career I observed a certain frustration in a historian whom I greatly admired, Henry Adams, who had spent much time and thought searching for a "law of history. ...
• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. ...
• This legitimate desire of the historian to interest, to instruct, and to please, is at once a leading motive for his labors, a challenge to present his work in artistic form, and a danger to his professional integrity. ...
• No person without an inherent loyalty to truth, a high degree of intellectual honesty, and a sense of balance, can be a great or even a good historian. ...
• In other words, the historian must be intellectually honest. ... It goes without saying that complete, "scientific" objectivity is unattainable by the historian. ... "4 No historian of my generation has ever pretended otherwise. ...
• So much has been written in recent years about these limitations on "scientific" objectivity as to obscure the plain, outstanding principle that the historian's basic task is one of presenting a corpus of ascertained fact. ... Somewhere along the assembly-line of their education, these students have had inserted in them a bolt called "points of view," secured with a nut called "trends," and they imagine that the historian's problem is simply to compare points of view and describe trends. ...
• It matters little what "method" the young historian follows, if he acquires the necessary tools of research, a sense of balance, and an overriding urge to get at the truth. ... If the period be one of which few monumenta have survived, the historian must use his imagination to bring the disjointed fragments into some logical pattern, as paleontologists reconstruct a prehistoric monster out of a bone or two. If the era be a recent one for which there are mountains of facts, the historian may sink a few experimental tunnels and examine what they bring up; or he may laboriously try to pan out the "color" from the dirt, or he may employ a corps of miners to do the preliminary sifting for him. ... The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
• The historian's professional duty is primarily to illuminate the past for his hearers or readers; only secondarily and derivatively should he be concerned with influencing the future. ... No historian can be free, or indeed ought to be free, of the best light that his own day and age affords, because he is writing of the past but not for the past; he is writing for the public of today and tomorrow, and his contemporaries ask very different questions of historians from those that his grandfather's generation asked. ...

• Sunday, 26 January, 2003, 14:48 GMT Historian Lord Dacre dies.
• Historian Lord Dacre, formerly Hugh Trevor-Roper, has died at the age of 89, his family have announced. ...
• His work had a popular touch and he paved the way for the modern television historian, appearing on programmes regularly and also working as a journalist. ...

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• German historian provokes row over war photos .
• A controversial German historian is at the centre of a row over his latest book which includes gruesome photos of German civilians killed by allied bombing during the second world war. ...

• Top News Iraq What is RSS? | All RSS Feeds Army Historian Cites Lack of Postwar Plan.
• military invaded Iraq without a formal plan for occupying and stabilizing the country and this high-level failure continues to undercut what has been a "mediocre" Army effort there, an Army historian and strategist has concluded. ...
• Isaiah Wilson III, who served as an official historian of the campaign and later as a war planner in Iraq. ...

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• ~ The Salacious Historian .

• "The Task Of The Modern Historian. ...
• The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. ...
• But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. ...
• An historian, such as we have been attempting to describe, would indeed be an intellectual prodigy. ...
• 3 This would be Charles Rollin (1661-1741), the French historian and the author of Histoire ancienne (1730-8) and Histoire romaine (1738-48).
• 5 John Lingard (1771-1851) was an English historian and a Catholic, indeed, an ordained priest, whose History of England was "fiercely assailed in the Edinburgh Review" (Chambers).
• 7 Jean François Marmontel (1723-99), another French historian.

• Historian: Kerry FBI files stolen.
• (CNN) -- FBI documents about FBI surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen, according to their owner, a historian who lives near San Francisco, California.

• Pioneer Historian, Ethnologist, Physician.
• He not only survived incredible odysseys in Texas and Mexico, which he later recorded in his Relación (account), but also entered the annals of colonial Texas as its first merchant, geographer, historian, ethnologist, and physician-surgeon. ...

• Welcome Triumph Mayflower Club Historian.
•  ©2001 - 2005 TRIUMPH MAYFLOWER HISTORIAN. ...

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