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I'm a golfer not a history major.

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.

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

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

Leave history to historians.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

I love anything to do with history.

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.