You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live..

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the wh….

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profes….

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born..

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a dif….

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me..

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to tra….

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story..

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states.

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion ab….