When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our... →
Jill Abramson
Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it... →
Grant Achatz
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a... →
Peter Ackroyd
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no... →
'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of... →
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.