United States History Student Edition

01 Introducing the Historian’s Toolkit Perspectives on History

“ One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present . . .” — Golda Meir; Israeli Prime Minister, 1969–1974

“ We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic [shortsighted] about our present.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author

“ Study the past if you would define the future.” — Confucius; Chinese philosopher, political theorist

“ History is not just the relation of events. History is also the search for what remains after the passage of events.” — Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian

PHOTO: (tl)U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsc-03265; (cr)lev radin/Alamy Stock Photo; (bl)Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; (bc)Zuri Swimmer/Alamy Stock Photo; TEXT: (1)Meir, Golda. My Life. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975; (2)Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. In Adewale-Gabril, Toyin. “In the Footsteps of Chinua Achebe.” Interview by Ike Anya. Sentinel Poetry - Online Magazine Monthly, Issue # 12 (November 2003). ISSN 1479-425X. http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/magazine1103/page14.html; (3)Confucius. Quoted by Zhang Haihua and Geoff Baker. Think Like Chinese. Sydney: The Federation Press, 2008; (4)Basadre, Jorge. Quoted by Mark Thurner. “Jorge Basadre’s “Peruvian History of Peru,” Or the Poetic Aporia of Historicism.” Hispanic American Historical Review 88, no. 2 (May 2008), 247-283. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2007-120.

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