The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.