13 Quotes by Sam Wineburg

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Just as math is more than a collection of theorems, history is more than a collection of facts. It’s an intellectual enterprise that requires piecing together a cogent and accurate story from partial scraps of faded words. And the process never ends. Its destination leads to a new beginning. True historical inquiry must end where it begins: with a question mark.

The mind demands pattern and form, which build up slowly and require repeated passes, with each pass going deeper and probing further.