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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. – Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. – Jessamyn West

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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. – Tom Hayden

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All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: History

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