I love Steven Spielberg. I don't care about the criticism he gets for "selling out" or that he is run by the studios. The man understands history -- he reads it, researches it, and lives it through his films. He says some really profound things in this speech at the 149th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg College. He says some really great things about the profession we have all chosen, and I think it's a testament to the fact that historians are, and always will be, relevant.
History lights the path toward injustice, so without history there is no hope.
I believe it is the betrayal of the job of the historian to promise perfect and complete recall of the past and to promise memory that abolishes loss.
As much as we need memory to live, we need an awareness of death to live.
The search for the meaning of our lives and of our deaths is the highest function of our capacities to reason, to remember, to imagine, and to dream.
Nothing matters more than memory.
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