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So many people of color who made major contributions to American h

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. – Henry Louis Gates

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History does not unfold: it piles up. – Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth

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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. – William Carlos Williams

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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer

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The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. – F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution

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