"What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the...

“No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.” Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian  ...

“History is not the past but a map of the past, drawn from a particular point of view, to be...

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” Cotton Mather, American writer   1. George Washington became the...

"History gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions.” Hajo Holborn, German-American historian   1. A day...

"One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, to scratch a drawing on a tusk or...

Saturday woke up with its usual haziness. It was always a battle between having more rest and doing house chores...

Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts —...

“History is instructive. What it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on...