When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than... →
Alan Huffman
I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone... →
Glenn Hughes
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human... →
Johan Huizinga
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal... →
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions... →
Wilhelm von Humboldt
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual... →
David Hume