I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

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War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare...

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare...

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire...

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire...

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a...

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a...

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were...

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were...

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I...

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I...

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you...

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you...

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from...

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from...