I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Antony Beevor
I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial... →
I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that... →
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to... →
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.
Paul Begala