Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. Abdullah II of Jordan alterbreakthroughchallenge Change image and share on social
Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated. Ehud Olmert historicobliteratescar Change image and share on social
Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences. Sergei Lavrov catastrophicconsequencecrisis Change image and share on social
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. Saul David constructfactfiction Change image and share on social
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own. Pamela Sargent fictiongoodhistorical Change image and share on social
Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe. Alexander Chee crimeadescribedramatize share on social
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it. Noam Chomsky calldevelopearly share on social
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere. Samantha Power abusecarrydecide Change image and share on social
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. Samuel E. Morison applycircumstancecommon Change image and share on social
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself. James McBride commercialgeneralhard Change image and share on social