History happens to one person at a time.
My country has no history, only a past.
It's hard to understand a moment in history when you are in it.
I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.
Most of us get our history through story.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
Media has become a way that we think about our history. And the media moments are, for better or worse, how we contextualize our history.
I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit medicinal.
