
Select 1 of the quotes below that best summarizes your view of history, discuss how this quote encapsulates your opinions.
a) History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions. – Voltaire, philosopher
b) History is a myth that men agree to believe. –Napoleon, French leader
c) With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present. – Kenneth Stampp, historian
d) History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~David McCullough, historian, author of John Adams
e) I’m interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. – TONI MORRISON, Time interview, Jan. 21, 1998
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