1892 quotes by historians for you to enjoy

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. Daniel J. Boorstin

Great Achieve Relations Some Born Hire Greatness Officers Public Public Relations

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. Daniel J. Boorstin

Worth Sign More Name His Celebrity Than Often Famous Services

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. Daniel J. Boorstin

Time Heroes Makes Celebrities

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. Daniel J. Boorstin

God World Responsibility See Making Shifted Interesting Newspaperman Theologians Need

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. David McCullough

Democracy History You Our Participant Know Full

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. David McCullough

Work Writing Weed Out Very Trying Rewriting Hard Lumber

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. David McCullough

War Book World Before Finding Follow Entire Had Over Like Look Wrote Tracks Does Got His Truman Account Going Experiences Certain Europe Satisfaction Right World War World War I

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. David McCullough

Work Book Thought Research Way Write Began Then Should

'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars. David Oshinsky

Culture Book Revenge Intelligence World Political Hypocrisy Liberal Distinguishes Exact Feat Ideas Well Insults Deals Witty Nasty His Left-Wing Michael Than Title Mean Aside Less Wars Sean Expose Fascism Chance Savages

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. Drew Gilpin Faust

Death War Relationship History Conflict World Other Carnage Nineteenth Nineteenth Century States Embarked Entering Would Civil Civil War New Global Proved Western Than American Any Front Middle American History Century Twentieth Twentieth Century United United States Slaughter World War

Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.' Drew Gilpin Faust

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. Drew Gilpin Faust

Mother Had Over Since Dead She Years Died

What we share with another ceases to be our own. Edgar Quinet

Own Our Share Another Ceases

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792. Edmund Morgan

Time Trials Three Hundredth Would Scholarly Attention Puzzling Anniversary Witch Witchcraft Been Salem Commands Even

To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one. Edmund Morgan

You Old Will Build Difficult Carpenter Tell Restore More New House Make Making New One Than Any Scratch Just Old House Much Successful Comparable Film Play