What is History?

 

History is full of really good

stories. That's the main reason           I got into this racket: I want           to make the arguement that history is interesting.

- Sarah Vowell

 

History is the version of past events   that people have decided to agree upon.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Why do YOU need to know History?

 

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

- Aldous Huxley

 

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

- Winston Churchill