Comments on: What Is History? Part 4B

By: Clyde Wilson

Clyde Wilson — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:35:35 +0000

Likewise, El Cid. Keep up the good posts.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:07:26 +0000

Dr. Wilson,

Unrelated to your post here but I wanted to say again it was a real pleasure to meet you yesterday at Dixie Republic.

By: PcH

PcH — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:43:02 +0000

Thanks, Hucbald, for the additions.

No one quotes men well who make hard reading.

By: Hucbald

Hucbald — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:12:39 +0000

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” - Karl Marx "A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false." - MacAulay "Historians are gossips who tease the dead." - Voltaire "God cannot alter the past, though historians can." - Samuel Butler "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history." - Plato "History, in general, only informs us what bad government is." - Jefferson "History is the propaganda of the victors." - Ernst Toller I claim trump on all of the above quotations. After all, almost nobody ever quotes Marx correctly.

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:44:39 +0000

"Change - above all violent change - is the essence of human history."

Michael Ledeen, always hoping to make history.....

By: Ronduck

Ronduck — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:42:56 +0000

In defense of New England it was a Bostonian who headed the Immigration Restriction League and helped bring about the immigration cutoff after the first world war.

http://www.vdare.com/fulford/1894_1924.htm

In addition the legislation was signed by Calvin Coolidge, who was the former governor of Massachusetts.

Although, I admit it would be nice to have them pushing the same viewpoints now that they did then.

By: m. zurich

m. zurich — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:42:13 +0000

as for books dogs, romances and lincoln sell the best. how about a dog in love with lincoln's leg - there's a winner. h. ford would say see that's history in the present. let's get in our cars and drive away. if ford knew history he would have scrapped the car. son, i'm going to put you in a missile made of metal and glass and filled with highly combustible fuels and let you shoot yourself down the road at uncontrollable speeds - sound like a plan?! [no car salesman could sell one, telling it like that.] 60 thousand die on the roads each year and only 10% are due to drunk or impaired driving. that's because the thing itself as is is the DANGER. but folks love it, like lincoln or a lincoln, it does 'sell'. you can even put a dog in it.

By: robert m. peters

robert m. peters — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:36:18 +0000

If you have a compelling urge to experience historical ignorance and how such ignorance can lead to both blasphemy and heresy, find you way to Southern churches this Sunday, Veterans' Day, and see how many of them break into Caesar's song, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"!

By: craig

craig — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:05:45 +0000

RE:7Sid It is not just a claim. Mary Todd Lincoln was deeply involved in "spiritism" and regularly partook of seances. Abe would sometimes join in if time permitted. While there is no record of Abe ever being baptised or ever associating with any church body he was drawn to Spiritism which was a bit fashionable then among the "elite" in Britain and the U.S..

By: Sid Cundiff

Sid Cundiff — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:54:45 +0000

Dr. Wilson:

I saw a book today at Barnes and Nobles that claims that Lincoln consulted mediums and held seances. Any truth to this claim of history? Or is someone just trying to sell a book? The book was pro-Lincoln.