Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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 provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Sax...
I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
