Joyce Appleby Quotes

United States, Historian
April 9, 1929 – December, 23, 2016.

Joyce Oldham Appleby was an American historian. She was a professor of history at UCLA. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997).

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

Joyce Appleby
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral.

Joyce Appleby

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Joyce Appleby
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Joyce Appleby
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Joyce Appleby