Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history for instance because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

The middle class one of the great achievements in history is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging and recasting and looking at our modern history.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Western history has been a history of deed done actions performed and results achieved.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.