If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems. Claire McCaskill compromisecongressdifficult Change image and share on social
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. Imre Kertesz adventurearriveauschwitz Change image and share on social
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. Rita Dove decidehavehistory Change image and share on social
Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance. Kate Williams explorehistoryimbalance Change image and share on social
It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history. Kate Williams 21stcenturyhistory Change image and share on social
Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor. Gary Weiss breathcasecomplicate Change image and share on social
Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund. Gary Weiss datedaydistinguish Change image and share on social
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age. Michael Behe agecellexample Change image and share on social
I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding. Martin Henderson childcolourcount share on social
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel charactercriticismexpert Change image and share on social
