Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researchers mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not available anywhere else, let it be in the novel. - from Twaynes US Authors Series: JOHN A WILLIAMS by Gilbert Muller
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- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation