I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.