Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?
Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.
The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.
If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.
Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at the table is like a ringside seat at the historical and ongoing drama of life in the region.