Hayden White Quote

Historians are concerned with events which can be assigned to specific timespace locations, events which are (or were) in principle observable or perceivable, whereas imaginative writers – poets, novelists, playwrights – are concerned with both these kinds of events and imagined, hypothetical, or invented ones.


"The fictions of factual representation"


Historians are concerned with events which can be assigned to specific timespace locations, events which are (or were) in principle observable or...

Historians are concerned with events which can be assigned to specific timespace locations, events which are (or were) in principle observable or...

Historians are concerned with events which can be assigned to specific timespace locations, events which are (or were) in principle observable or...

Historians are concerned with events which can be assigned to specific timespace locations, events which are (or were) in principle observable or...