Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.
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.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but ...
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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.
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
