Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind -- what they are in their thought-world determines how they act. This is true of their value...
By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment ...
What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. ...
One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and alienation from the world around us that arose when we became no longer able easily to get food in a fe...
March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
