At times we were forced to go through a history of dependence unable to determine our own destiny. But today we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

Nixon in 1968 unlike Obama 2008 was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet in 1972 he won what in some measures was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history and Europe has helped write ours.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.