History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the 20th century. You are a consumer of that information, especially if it’s stuff like Columbus and the American Indians. That information isn’t even in history, much of it. Much of it is in anthropology or archeology.

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.