The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. - Jill Lepore

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I feel like you are this or that because other people say so. I wouldn't know how to play a psychopath. I don't think about it that way. You think about playing the scene but if the other people say that guy is crazy, then you are.

Jill Lepore

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

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When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.

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History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

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