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• There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
• The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very…
• We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of…
• I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
• History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
• But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
• Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
• From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…

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