In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or...
The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people’s history but produce none of their own. They are the stock-jobbers of history, lives are their units of exchange. Lives as they are lived, deaths as they are died, all t...
If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ...
Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the perso...
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain wa...
The fairy or fantastic world replaces the classical Hades (or Hell) in Sir Orfeo, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight takes this fantasy element to new heights. Sir Gawain is one of the Knights of the Round Table, the followers of King Arthur, who is...
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"...
