Photograph by Willian Juste de Vasconcellos

The value of history is...not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control...ourselves...it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

Carl Lotus Becker — American Historian and former Professor of History at Cornell University (1873 — 1945).