Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Ira Berlin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American historian Ira Berlin.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians.

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — © Ira Berlin
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.
[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.
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