31. “History never looks like history when you are living through it.”– John W. Gardner 32. “Human history, in essence, is the history of ideas.”– H. G. Wells 33. “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”–Oscar Wilde 34. “No other discipline has its ...
The Victors Write History, the Vanquished Literature: Myth, Distortion and Truth in the XV BrigadeAnthropology poeticdisciplinary mutationanthropological literature in ChileJuan Carlos OlivaresreceptionThe present article attempts to expose and debunk some myths of the participation of the English-speaking ...
History is written by the victor.历史由胜者书写。这句话描述的是基于某种规律的事实，谓语动词表示的...
History is written by the victor.历史由胜者书写。这句话描述的是基于某种规律的事实，谓语动词表示的...
13. “When the victors rewrite history, it’s just another kind of war, waged after the battlefield killing is done, to murder the memory of the defeated.”— Takeshi Kovacs 14. “Sometimes, belief isn’t about what we can see. It’s about what we can’t.”— Takeshi Kovacs ...
New HISTORY books…books without war, without CELEBRATIONS of war, HEROES of war, lies about war, tales written by the victors. We are literally TEACHING children that WAR is a way of life. We NEVER talk about PEACE as a way of life. I’ve said it before…we have a gigantic ...
Michael, another point that I thought about a lot when I was reading your book is the importance of who is telling the story in history, especially when we’re going back thousands of years. Historiography, right? And there’s this famous quote that history is written by the victors, righ...
The world spills over in ashes and grey, as the structures try to keep out those who they feel do not deserve…anything. History is written by the victors, but life is written by the survivors. Neither one is ever out of the game, as long as the game moves on. But time does make...
discovery, but details the various civilizations residing in North, Central, and South America, explaining their customs and cultures, providing a glimpse into a lost way of life, and reminding us that -- for better or worse -- history tends to be told by the victors rather than the ...
A visit to Jaffna in Sri Lanka—the country of her birth, yet where she is unmistakably a foreigner—to view sites from the recent civil war, already layered over with the narratives of the victors. A fraught memory of her time as a young art student in Chicago that is uneasily ...