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A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.

Blood, Cold, Historian, Running, Word

The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

Came, Exercise, Government, History, Powers

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers. . . it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

Answers, Children, Faculty, Grow, Growing Up, Men

I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.

Classroom, Ideas, Listen, People, Teaching

History at its best is vicarious experience.

Experience, History, Vicarious

Matthias de l'Obel

Matthias de l'Obel

George Whitman

George Whitman

Andrew Bynum

Andrew Bynum

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Henry Clay Payne

Henry Clay Payne

Tamara E. Jernigan

Tamara E. Jernigan

Andreas Deja

Andreas Deja

Mr. T

Mr. T

Irina Bokova

Irina Bokova

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Stafford Smith

Ernst Udet

Ernst Udet