If I were starting afresh my work in economics and I were told that
I could only study one field, I would choose economic history.
J.A.Schumpeter (economics theoretician)
The study of history is not simply standing in
the present and looking back. Rather it is going back into the past
and returning to the present with a broader perspective of the alternatives
open to us. In this manner, the dead hand of the past is transformed
into a living tool for the present and the future.
W.A. Williams
(historian of US imperialism)