I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
Both 'Mabo' and 'The Sapphires' have been significant roles because it's about my people. They are celebratory stories, on top of allowing people to understand our history.
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.
