I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
From David McCullough
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
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