It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.
Simon Schama
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of... →
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the... →
Robert Scheer
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
Michael Scheuer
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today.... →
Stacy Schiff
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession... →
The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our... →
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.