Provocative excerpts from primary and secondary sources (some with audio glosses). Read the rationale behind these sound bites for more information.
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551) Therefore, the essence of a nation is that all individuals have many things in common and also that all have forgotten many things. (Ernest Renan) [SoundBite #551]
552) Facts in a nude state are not liable criminally, any more than bright and beautiful children commit a felony by being born thus; but it is the solemn duty of those having these children in charge to put appropriate, healthful, and even attractive apparel upon them at the earliest possible moment. It is thus with facts. They are the framework of history, not the drapery. They are like the cold, hard, dishevelled, damp, and uncomfortable body under the knife of the demonstrator, not the bright and bounding boy, clothed in graceful garments and filled to every tingling capillary with a soul. We, each of us, the artist and the author, respect facts. We have never, either of us, said an unkind word regarding facts. But we believe that they should not be placed before the public exactly as they were born. We want to see them embellished and beautified. (Bill Nye and Frederick Opper) [SoundBite #552]
553) You wouldn't perform surgery on someone if you hadn't been to medical school yet, you wouldn't go into battle without the proper gear, you wouldn't even leave the house in the winter without a hat and gloves, but people expect to live in a peaceful society without understanding the trials and tribulations of the past. (Catherine Breckenridge, Lehigh University) [SoundBite #553]
554) The stories we tell determine the lives we lead. (old saying) [SoundBite #1214]
555) Study the past if you would divine the future. (Confucius) [SoundBite #1216]
556) The effect of these competing forces on the films certainly means that they cannot be regarded as substitutes for rigorous, scholarly written histories, and they will always compare unfavourably with these academic works when judged by the standards usually applied to the academic history. (Mike Chopra-Gant 93) [SoundBite #1215]
557) Clearly our textbooks are not about teaching history. Their enterprise is Building Character. They therefore treat Columbus as an origin myth: He was good and so are we. (James W. Loewen 60) [SoundBite #1337]
558) Is it impossible to think history, regardless of the way it is presented, is actually just entertainment? (Amy Isabelle, Lehigh University) [SoundBite #1218]
559) I mean, don't we learn just as much from our fiction as we do from our fact? (John Culhane, Lehigh University) [SoundBite #550]
560) Watching the films of America's past prompts us to question what we already know. Being placed on history's lap while watching a wide-screen movie creates an opportunity to rightfully analyze American history. (Thomas Bianchi, Lehigh University) [SoundBite #2536]
