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" I knew Berlin would have to become a kind of character in my new book, ‘In the Garden of Beasts’. I had felt likewise about Chicago when I wrote ‘The Devil in the White City’ and Galveston with ‘Isaac’s Storm’. " - Erik Larson

" If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart. " - Ruby Bridges

" Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences. " - Mal Peet

" My mother’s family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed. " - Alexander Chee

" When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam’s palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there’s no telling what stories they’d tell. " - Kellie Pickler

" In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I’ve been thinking about how subjective history is. " - Sufjan Stevens

" We can’t let the past be forgotten. " - George Takei

" Fashion only seems to make sense if it’s rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea. " - Douglas Coupland

" I find my husband’s family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people. " - Kim Edwards

" There aren’t very many notable Native American female figures historically. That’s the way that it’s been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. " - Julia Jones