It Was A Day And Age That

Housetops Were Covered With 'gazers'; All Wharves That Offered A View Were Jammed With People ... As British Officers Happily Reminded One Another, It Was The Largest Fleet Ever Seen In American Waters. In Fact It Was The Largest Expeditionary Force Of The 18th Century, The Largest, Most Powerful Force Ever Sent Forth By Britain Or Any Other Nation.

You Can Make The Argument That There's No Such Thing As The Past. Nobody Lived In The Past. They Lived In The Present. It Is Their Present, Not Our Present, And They Don't Know How It's Going To Come Out. They Weren't Just Like We Are Because They Lived In That Very Different Time. You Can't Understand Them If You Don't Understand How They Perceived Reality.

If You Get Down About The State Of American Culture, Just Remember There Are Still More Public Libraries In This Country Than There Are Mcdonalds.

History Is Not Just About Dates And Quotations. And It's Not Just About Politics, The Military And Social Issues, Though Much Of It Of Course Is About That. It's About Everything. It's About Life History. It's Human. And We Have To See It That Way. We Have To Teach It That Way. We Have To Read It That Way. It's About Art, Music, Literature, Money, Science, Love - The Human Experience.

Find Something To Do That You Love Because Then The Work Itself Is Always The Reward Not The Recompense. And If You Love What You're Doing You Probably Do Better At It Than Doing Something You Don't Love And Therefore You'll Be Compensated Appropriately.