History 231 Reading Guide

Introduction

Thinking Historically, and Thinking about the Historical Past

  • "What's past is prologue." William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c.1610-11)
  • "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
  • "A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing." Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change (1935)
  • "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)