I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in mode...
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and s...
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to estab...
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a per...
At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.
Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been ...
There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
I'm not sure history has ended.
The Thames is liquid history.
