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History is the study of the human past as it is described de scribed in the written documents documents left by human beings. The past, The past, with all its decisions completed, its participants dead and its history told, is what the general public When it is dark enough enough you can see see t he stars... Marti Martin n Luther King. New Zealand Transition / Getty Images

perceives as the immutable bedrock on which we historians and

archaeologists stand. But as purveyors of the past, we recognize that the bedrock is really quicksand, that bits of the story are yet untold, and that what has been told comes tainted by the conditions of what we are today. That's my opinion, of course—here are a collection of others.

History Definition History is a narration of the events which have happened among mankind, including an account of the rise and fall of nations, as well as of other great changes which have affected the political and social condition of the human race.—John J. Anderson. 1876. A 1876. A Manual of General Gener al History . History is not what you thought. It is what you remember. All other history defeats itself.—W itself.—W.. ARCHAEOLOGY CONTINUE READING BELOW OUR VIDEO

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Google AdWords™ Philippines C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman. 1930 Preface, 1066 and All That . History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —James Joyce. Ulysses. 1922(1988) Published by Oxford University Press. P. 34 History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.—Arnold J. Toynbee April 17, 1955. NBC television broadcast.

The Psycho-Historian If a science of history were achieved, it would, like the science of celestial mechanics, make possible the calculable prediction of the future in history. It would bring the totality of historical occurrences within a single field and reveal the unfolding future to its last end, including all the apparent choices made and to be made. It would be omniscience. The creator of it would possess the attributes ascribed by the theologians to God. The future once revealed, humanity would have nothing to do except to await its doom. —Charles Austin Beard. 1933. "Written History as an Act of Fate." Annual address of the president of the American Historical Association, delivered at Urbana, Illinois. December 28, 1933. American Historical Review 39(2):219231. History is and should be a science. .... History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.—Fustel de Coulanges The first foundations of all history are the recitals of the fathers to the children, transmitted afterward from one generation to another; at their origin they are at the very most probable, when they do not shock common sense, and they lose one degree of probability in each generation.—Voltaire [1694-1778]. The Philosophical Dictionary . translated 1924 by H.I. Woolf History is ... a dialogue between the present and the past. (originally: Geschichte ist ... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit.)— Edward Hallet Carr. 1961. What Is History? New York: Vintage Books. HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools: Of Roman history, great Niebuhr 's shown 'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he Search... blundered and how much he lied. (Salder Bupp) — Ambrose Bierce. 1911.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks we play on the dead. (French original) J'ay vu un temps où vous n'aimiez guères l'histoire. Ce n'est après tout qu'un ramas de tracasseries qu'on fait aux morts...) — Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet). 1757. Letter to Pierre Robert Le Cornier de Cideville. In Voltaire's Correspondence vol. xxxi. edited by Theodore Besterman, 1958.

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History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all—it is very tiresome.— Catherine Morland [Jane Austen]. 1803. Northanger Abbey . The major lessons of history? There are four: First, whom the gods destroy they first make mad with power. Second, the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. Third, the bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Fourth, when it is dark enough you can see the stars.—Although this quote has been attributed to historian Charles Austin Beard, I couldn't find an original source. This version is the one Martin Luther King used in "The death of evil upon the seashore" in Strength to Love, 1981. Fortress Press, p. 83 A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself. —Attributed to Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)

History Definitions for the Cranky Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.—Henry David Thoreau. 1849. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. After such knowledge, wha t forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering a mbitions, Guides us by vanities. Think now She gives when our attention is distracted And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late What's not believed in, or if still believed, In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. —T.S. Eliot. 1920 Gerontion. In The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems. You know, it's so strange, I've lived through four forms of government in my life: monarchy, republic, Hitler's Reich, American democracy. The [ Weimar] republic was only ... 1918 to 1933, that's fifteen years! Imagine that, only Search...

fifteen years. But, then, Hitler was going to last a thousand years and he lasted only ... 1933 to 1945... twelve, twelve years only! Hah! —Gusti

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So very difficult a matter it is to trace and find out the truth of anything by history. —Plutarch. ca. 46-120 AD—from Dryden's translation of Plutarch's Lives, edited and revised by A. H. Clough


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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch? —Douglas Adams. 1981. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe. Harmony Books. P. 215 This feature is part of the About.com Definition Collections in Archaeology and Related Fields.

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anthropology from anthropologists.-Kris Hirst

Anthropology Definitions [Anthropology] is less a subject matter than a bond between subject matters. It is in part history, part literature; in part natural science, part social science; it strives to study men both from within Anthropologists Collecting Data in the Philippines. International Rice Research Institute.

and without; it represents both a manner of looking at man

and a vision of man-the most scientific of the humanities, the most humanist of sciences.-Eric Wolf, Anthropology , 1964. Anthropology has traditionally attempted to stake out a compromise position on this central issue by regarding itself as both the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences. That compromise has always looked peculiar to those outside anthropology, but today it looks increasingly precarious to those within the discipline.-James William Lett. CONTINUE READING BELOW OUR VIDEO

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1997. Science Reason and Anthropology: The Principles of Rational Inquiry . Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. Anthropology is the study of humankind. Of all the disciplines that examine aspects of human existence and accomplishments, only Anthropology explores the entire panorama of the human experience from human origins to contemporary forms of culture and social life.- University of Florida Search...

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What Is History? - A Will Durant on Collection of Anthropology 2 3 4 Anthropologists attempt to answerDefined the question: "how can one explain the Geological Consent Definitions

diversity of human cultures that are currently found on earth and how have they evolved?" Given that we will have to change rather rapidly within the next generation or two this is a very pertinent question for anthropologists.Michael Scullin

Anthropology is the study of human diversity around the world.


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cultural beliefs, and communication styles. They often seek to promote understanding between groups by "translating" each culture to the other, for instance by spelling out common, taken-for-granted assumptions.- University of North Texas Anthropology seeks to uncover principles of behavior that apply to all human communities. To an anthropologist, diversity itself-seen in body shapes and sizes, customs, clothing, speech, religion, and worldviewprovides a frame of reference for understanding any single aspect of life in any given community.- American Anthropological Association

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Anthropology is the study of people. In this discipline, people are considered in all their biological and cultural diversities, in the present as well as in the prehistoric past, and wherever people have existed. Students are introduced to the interaction between people and their environments to develop an appreciation of human adaptations past and present. Portland Community College Anthropology explores what it means to be human. Anthropolog y is the scientific study of humankind in all the cultures of the world, both past and present.-Western Washington University

The Human Experience of Anthropology Anthropology is the study of humans in all areas and in all periods of time.Triton College Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.-Michael Brian Schiffer Anthropology is the study of human culture and biology in the past and present.-Western Kentucky University Anthropology is, at once, both easy to define and difficult to describe; its subject matter is both exotic (marriage practices among Australian aborigines) and commonplace (the structure of the human hand); its focus both sweeping and microscopic. Anthropologists may study the language of a tribe of Brazilian Native Americans, the social life of apes in an African rain forest, or the remains of a long-vanished civilization in their own backyard - but there is always a common thread linking these vastly different projects, and always the common goal of advancing our understanding of who we are and how we came to be that way. In a sense, we all "do" anthropology because it is rooted in a universal human characteristic -- curiosity about ourselves and other people, living and dead, here and across the globe.- University of Louisville Anthropology is devoted to the study of human beings and human societies as they exist across time and space. It is distinct from other social sciences Search...

in that it gives central attention to the full time span of human history, and to 1

the full range of human societies and cultures, including those located in What Is History? -A Will Durant on Popol Vuh - History Collection of Anthropology Defined 2 4 historically marginalized parts of the world. It3is therefore especially Geological Consent attuned of the Quiché Maya Definitions to questions of social, cultural, and biological diversity, to issues of power,

identity, and inequality, and to the understanding of dynamic processes of social, historical, ecological, and biological change over time.- Stanford University Anthropology department website (now moved)

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