Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.
Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote s...
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 m...
