Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.
History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
