What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.
Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.
