National Archives Quote

The quote just recently posted by Dawne made me think of this one that I saw when I was visiting Washington D.C. last spring. This inscription was out in front of the National Archives, beneath a statue. I liked the quote so much I had to take a picture of it. I think that it does a very good job of portraying just how important it is to preserve our history. I ended up going home and researching who originally came up with this quote. It was one Wendell Phillips, a social activist and lawyer from the 19th century.

"The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future."

Resource Used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Phillips

A Quote to Ponder

"...history is not the prerogative of the historian...It is, rather, a social form of knowledge; the work in a given instance, of a thousand different hands..." This is from the book People and their Pasts: Public History Today, Edited by Paul Ashton and Hilda Keen, 2009. The book is full of articles by British authors involved in public history. Good read...

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