Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants about people who are different has a history as old as our Nation.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

A library to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

The stones themselves are thick with history and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits cravings family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

As a novelist I mined my history my family and my memory but in a very specific way. Writing fiction I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy because my mother kept a great deal to herself.