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The role of writing in history

It is hard if not impossible to separate historical scholarship from the act of writing. Only historians knitting together carefully sifted evidence into a coherent story or analytical argument can recover the past.

In your opinion, which of the following statements do you think best captures the role of writing in history?

Let the facts speak for themselves.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. Philip Guedalla
 History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers