The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.
