Portolan Chart - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“Bias, point of view, fury—are they ... so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the hills flattened and the contours leveled? The professors talk ... about passion and point of view in history as a Calvinist talks about sin in the bedroom.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)

“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)