Quotable History

“The function of the historian thus is to jog the social memory, to study the experience of society in the past and to set forth his findings for the service of the present.”

— Waldo G. Leland (1917), “Concerning Catholic Historical Societies,” Catholic Historical Review 2 (January 1917): 386-399, p. 386. Free online at The Internet Archive

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