It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country’s history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
Marmite – like that other little black-jar job, Bovril – is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in ‘97.
I’ve done history; I’ve done biopics, I’ve done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can’t typecast me, you can’t pigeonhole me.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.
Recent history shows that leaders in both parties are fanatics on the topic of immigration, and they cannot be trusted to effectively enforce any significant border measure.
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
History is about loops and continuums.
Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.
Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist’s thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community’s history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.
If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.
