History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2022 History (Shift-I)
Who said, 'History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in'?
AMax Beerbohm
BWilliam Zinsser
COliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ✓ Correct
DHenry Adams
Correct answer: (C) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. — It was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., so that is the answer.
Explanation
★It was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., so that is the answer.
★Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said these words about history being a selection of threads of causes.
★He held that history has to be rewritten as our interests change.
★Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an American jurist.
★He served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932.
★So the author of this statement was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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