As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was... →
Robert Darnton
We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the... →
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history... →
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is... →
Arthur Darvill
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
Mahmoud Darwish
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.
Vir Das
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the... →
Samuel Dash
I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to... →
Evan Daugherty