My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
