The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum's collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest ...
Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair...
Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
