Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience.
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
When I looked further into my mother’s history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.
I have a long view of history – my orientation is archaeological because I’m always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.
Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV… and it wasn’t in your room… so when I was 8 years old, I began developing a passion for reading history, and it’s never stopped.
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and ‘70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. – McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
There’s nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
I’m a different kind of Republican. I’ve introduced a five-year balanced budget. I’ve introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
‘History Is All You Left Me’ is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
