History is the hallmark of humanity.

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

Just like in the 18th century when the French distinguished the Arab, Persian, and Indic attributes, in the Middle Ages these were associated with concepts of exuberant, refined, distinguished,...

The entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such...

Long live Colombia! We have just killed Pablo Escobar!

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he...

a top hat - a deliberate act of rebellion on Ike's part that shocked the protocol mavens. For their part, the Eisenhowers had refused to enter the White House for a pre-inauguration cup of coffee,...

The males of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

What had Old Joe Hunt answered when I knowingly claimed that history was the lies of the victors? As long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.

This book argues that evolution is happening all around us. It is the best way of understanding how the human world changes, as well as the natural world. Change in human institutions, artefacts and...

So far as the facts in the case are concerned, Dr Howell and I had called our book a 'true' history.

How could the colonists starve in the midst of plenty? One reason was that the English feared leaving Jamestown to fish, because Powhatan's fighters were waiting outside the colony walls. A second...

A bullet hole in my bedroom door was a grim reminder of December 7, 1941, and of an entire nation which had not been sufficiently awake…

Christianity in China from 150 years prior to the time of its inscription, circa 780.

LAW: Long - term price stability is possible only when the money supply is based upon the gold {or silver} supply without government interference.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

For long centuries monasteries had been virtually the only institutions that cared about books. Even in the stable and prosperous times of the Roman Empire, literacy rates, by our standards at least,...

The wars of the twentieth century brought home the fundamental truth that people will fight for their country and unite in its defence, but will seldom fight for their class, even when the...

Throughout his life Hayek wanted to affirm his identity with the classic liberal tradition, believing that the true cause of the crises leading to two world wars was the steady increase in the power...

He wanted to be a universal man … and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him.

There is an additional and compelling question that probably also will go unaddressed: what is a Protestant? In this brief Introduction I will demonstrate that the category 'Protestant' includes so...

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

Generally it must be stated that realpolitik has been better at dividing than at ruling. Take it as a whole since Kissinger called on the Shah in 1972, and see what the harvest has been.

Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that - in my humble opinion - allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

I cannot tell where you should look for me because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.

It was a skill useful to lawyers, and no man in all English history was more the lawyer than Coke. He personified a profession considered both so influential and so dubious that in 1372 the House of...

Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science

The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs: it had just the opposite effect. It gave rise to a secular...

gradualism in theory, is perpetuity in practice.