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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

History is more interesting than most people think.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

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 can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.