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Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

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.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

History is more interesting than most people think.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.