After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.