Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.