If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.
I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
