Quote by David McCullough
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. – Stephen Ambrose

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I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. – Chris Rock

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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. – Norman Borlaug

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The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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