| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed116d0 | The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth - not a different truth: the same truth - only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them. | history history-of-the-united-states | Shelby Foote | |
| 3003434 | The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries because they are regenerated across the generations. | history-of-mankind history-of-the-united-states sociology psychology | Carl Zimmer | |
| 2ad20ec | Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake | history civil-war-eastern-theater history-of-the-united-states military-history | Shelby Foote |