Quotes About History

So now we begin to understand the paradoxical phonocentric "history of silence", that repression of writing which can scarcely be acknowledged.

History shows that the best solutions to scientific problems are simple and elegant.

He smiled at me, the irritating, superior kind of smile that I would love to try sometime when I wasn't in disguise. "You didn't read your history, did you?" he said. "I don't think this chapter was assigned. What are you talking about?

he is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.

In terms of the collective memory of the American people, the Korean War is not just forgotten. It was not remembered in the first place…." —HISTORIAN ALLAN MILLETT

who blamed Lee. Longstreet knew that somewhere

As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don't care about symbols.

Words are the most important thing we have. A few words, one word, can change history.

How long can a war go on? It seems like this war has been going on forever without end.

If you go by the records that never seem to make it into textbooks, Asians have been in America since Filipino slaves jumped ship from Spanish galleons in Louisiana in the 1760s, where they built secret villages in the swamplands, hid from their kidnappers, fished to survive, and eventually, were recruited to defend a young America from a new British invasion in 1812.

Ichioka, Gee, Ichioka's brother Victor, Vicci Wong, Floyd Huen, and Richard Aoki—dubbed themselves the "Asian-American Political Alliance," coining "Asian-American" in emulation of their Afro-American fellows

the mid-Fifties, the first hairline crack appeared in the dam barring Asian immigration. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, finally abolished race-based restrictions against naturalization as a U.S. citizen, which had, since 1790, been limited to "free white persons of good character.

in 1941, the iconic periodical Life published an article called "How to Tell Japs from the Chinese" to prevent vigilantes from accidentally attacking Chinese "allies" as they went out to hunt "enemy" Japs, pointing out the "parchment yellow complexion" and "scant beard" of Chinese versus the "earthy yellow complexion" and "heavy beard" one would expect to see among Japanese.

It's safe to say that South Korea now has a reputation for being a place where cool stuff comes from. And yet, just 70 years ago—after the end of the Korean War—Korea was one of the poorest nations in the world.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.

Bari, that freewheeling gem on Italy's Adriatic coast.

Prewar." It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people's minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike America for the past eighty years, Italy had not regularly dotted the globe with tanks and infantry and drones. Thom

The pictures slipped past again and I kept looking at them. Some of the scans were sepia pictures, going back a hundred years; some were black-and-white; some were oversaturated, from the sixties and seventies. Many were recent, direct digital. Finally

Northern Virginia could never decide whether it was a suburb of New York or a part of the Confederacy.

hardly academically rigorous, revealed that English breakfast tea was misnamed in several ways. It came from India, Sri Lanka and Kenya, not England. It was imported to the British Isles by the Portuguese, who drank it in the afternoon. A Scotsman popularized its consumption at breakfast.

God bless the Scots and their puritan upbringing

We should, of course, look back with pride on our colonial empire, but be willing at the same time to grasp the nettles of opportunity.