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History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

History is more or less bunk.

History is history. What is done is done.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

I'm sick of making bloody history.