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“Learning about the past liberates the learner from oppressions earlier constructions of the past have imposed upon them.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“Finally, when historians contest interpretations of the past among themselves, they’re liberating it in yet another sense: from the possibility that there can be only a single valid explanation of what happened.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson