Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900. David Roberts buildcallcity Change image and share on social
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton. Gwen Ifill amorphousbillcast Change image and share on social
History has been the history of warfare. Godfrey Reggio historywarfare Change image and share on social
I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them. Scott Snyder auditbigbuff Change image and share on social
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque. Said Sayrafiezadeh activelyassumeawful share on social
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure. David Vitter corehistoryinstitution Change image and share on social
China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything. Dambisa Moyo annoyattemptbillion share on social
We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost. Chin Han dealdevicegaze Change image and share on social
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway. Richard Flanagan europeanhistorykind Change image and share on social
When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed. Richard Grasso exchangefailhistory Change image and share on social