Americans view themselves as the vanguard of democracy, the last stand for liberty, and the superpower that ties together all other nations. Or so the American historical community would have you believe. For better or worse, Americans have a unique view of their own history because of how it has developed into a global player. ...
Unitarian minister, poet, writer and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote in his Essays, First Series, “Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.” Certainly, this is true as history reveals itself from the individual trying to make sense of the world and finding the truth within it. History is the account of ...
The Mission of Livy’s History Titus Livius (59 BC-17 AD), or Livy as he is commonly called, was a Roman historian during the years Augustus was building the Roman Empire. Livy wrote a massive 142 book history of Rome called Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) which covered all of Roman history ...
— We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. Niccolo Machiavelli In the Prince, Machiavelli wrote, “It is not unknown to me how many have been and are of the opinion that worldly events are so governed by fortune and by God that men cannot by their providence change them. ...
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