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History does not unfold: it piles up. ~Robert M Adams
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~Anonymous
History is...man's commentary on man. ~John Barker
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ~John Barth
History paints the human heart. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck
People tend to forget that the word 'history' contains the word 'story.' ~Ken Burns
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. ~Thomas Carlyle
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. ~Bruce Catton
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. ~Henry Steele Commanger
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. ~Fustel de Coulange
The past is not a package one can lay away. ~Emily Dickinson
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. ~Will Durant
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D Eisenhower
Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them. ~Guy Fregault
History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~John W Gardner
History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. ~Henry Glassie
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. ~Vance Havner
The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Take from the altars of the past the fire—not the ashes. ~Jean Jaures
History... is an aggregation of truths, half-truths, semi-truths, fables, myths, rumors, prejudices, personal narratives, gossip, and official prevarications. ~Philip D Jordan
A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life. ~Hannah Farnham Lee
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ~John Leonard
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ~Mary McCarthy
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. ~David McCullough
History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ~Cotton Mather
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ~Golda Meir
The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive. ~John Morley
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. ~Walter Rauschenbusch
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. ~David Thelen
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no simple lesson in history...it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. ~John Toland
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. ~George Macaulay Trevelyan
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. ~Bill Vaughan
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ~Jessamyn West
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. ~Rebecca West
The historian lays humanity on the couch. ~Lynn White Jr
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. ~Alfred North Whitehead
Our land is everything to us ... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it—with their lives. ~John Wooden
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
48th Anniversary of JFK Assassination
“Assassination’s the fastest way.” ~Molière I remember this date the way I remember birthdays: the anniversary of the JFK assassination. A defining moment for my generation. I was never star-struck with the Kennedys the way that some people are now—I … Continue reading
The Duggars and the Myth of Overpopulation
Debunking the Debunkers “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” ~Hans Christian Anderson The idea of overpopulation came up the other day when I was watching the Duggars, a TLC-TV program I rarely … Continue reading
Pontiac’s Rebellion*
USA Guest Writer Willard W Glazier “A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers; but when I go up to the river, I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill … Continue reading
The Toledo War or How Michigan Came to Have the Upper Peninsula*
USA Guest Writer Willard W Glazier “What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it … Continue reading
Things Past 