17. “To study history means submitting yourself to chaos, but nevertheless retaining your faith in order and meaning.”– Herman Hesse You will also enjoy our article onlearning quotes. 18. “History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try...
Now that I’m pulling together stuff I shot over those years, I’m humbled to think that some of the stories I thought were routine when I was banging them out may be the stuff that historians study years from now. History belongs to the victors (and to the guys who wrote it down)....
General Johnston tried to assure General Breckinridge that General Sherman was a royal good fellow, but the most absent- minded man in the world. He told him that the failure to offer him a drink was the highest compliment that could have been paid to the masterly arguments with which he h...
The rules of behaviour are becoming a really important way of figuring out whether a personbelongsin good society. In the dust and mud of the goldfields particularly it can be very difficult to tell if a person comes from the same background as you and fortunes are being made and lost ve...
Idiots believing history written by the victors. Stonewall was a brilliant general who was not given high enough responsibility. Added 10 years ago by theflealee, 1 point This is so absurd..Southerners can't get over the Civil War after 150 years . Stonewall never led any large formations...
The conquest of Constantinople by the Latins of the Fourth Crusade (1204 CE), and the subsequent distribution of the Byzantine territories among the victors, meant that the island remained under Latin domination for a long period of time [54]. The city of Euripos was renamed Negroponte. During...