History

Works to read

• Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede, 731
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections) by Edward Gibbon, 1776-1789
• The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis, 2023
• A History of Philosophy, Vol. VI: Wolff to Kant by Frederick Copleston, 1960
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary, 2009
• The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham, 2009
• The Philosophy of History by G. W. F. Hegel, 1837 · Great Books
• Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman, 1875
• The Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle, 1875
• The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk, 1953
• The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga, 1919 · Great Books
• The History of Rome, Books I-V by Livy (Titus Livius), c. 27-9 BC

Passages

• The history of the world is the world's court of judgment.

  — G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right

• The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles

  — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

• The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

  — William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

• Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular

  — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

• Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.

  — Aristotle, Poetics

• When in the chronicle of wasted time

  — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 106

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