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"The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time"

Thucydides,
The Peloponnesian War [Book I, 22].


"...it is one thing to compose as a poet, and another to record as an historian: the poet may relate or rehearse things, not as they were, but as they ought to have been; whereas the historian must transmit them, not as they ought to have been, but exactly as they were; without adding to, or subtracting the least title from the truth."


Cervantes
Don Quixote [Volume II, Book 1]

Read on-line: Careers for Students of History
by Constance Schulz, Page Putnam Miller, Aaron Marrs, and Kevin Allen
Published by the American Historical Association, The National Council for Public History, and the Public History Program, University of South Carolina. Printed version, © 2002.

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Books
 
Kate L. Turabian. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1996.
William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. The Elements of Style. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Constance Schulz. Careers for Students of History. 2002. 64 pages. ISBN 0-87229-128-6