Choose one of the following statements about history by great thinkers. Do you agree with the statement or not? Why or why not? How would you define history? Write your responses as a comment to this post. Indicate your quote choice in your comment using the designated number. More than one student may choose the same quote, but no posts should be similar.
1. "History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." - Edward Gibbon
2. "There is properly no history; only biography." Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "History is more or less bunk." Henry Ford
4. "Every past is worth condemning." Friedrich Nietzsche
5. "Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past." Sigmund Freud
6. "Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time." Frederick Jackson Turner
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