Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Edward Hallett Carr
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The older you begin to study the facts of history, the more you will find that the facts don’t necessarily tell the whole story. Studying history is like studying a recipe. At first, all you know about it is the ingredients and their quantities. You never know what will happen with what you’ve put together, but you do know that something good will happen.

As you continue to study history, you start to see patterns and connections emerge. These things become part of your knowledge about history. They are your assumptions, your understanding of how people have dealt with similar situations in the past.

Source: What Is History?

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