We Are Not Merely Historians But Also

All Modern U.s. Presidents Are Perforce Politicians, Prisoners Of Their Past Pronouncements, Their Party, Their Constituency, And Their Colleagues.

American Social Arrangements, Economic Arrangements, The Degree Of Inequality In American Life, The Relatively Small Role Played By The Government In American Public Life And So Forth, Compares To Exactly The Opposite Conditions In Most Of The European Societies.

The Military System Of A Nation Is Not An Independent Section Of The Social System But An Aspect Of Its Totality.

Although The United States Lost A Quarter Of A Million Men And Women, Civilians And Soldiers, In World War Ii, That's Considerably Less Than The Russians Lost In Soldiers At The Battle Of Stalingrad Alone. It's Important To Convey To Countries And To People And To Generations Who Have No Experience Of The 20th Century As It Was Lived In Europe Just How Catastrophic It Was.

Unlike Memory, Which Confirms And Reinforces Itself, History Contributes To The Disenchantment Of The World.