"Technology...has become the prime source of material change and so determines the pattern of the total social fabric."

"My great-grandmother would talk about her uncles who served in the Maine Regiment during the Civil War, my great-gran…"

"The past contains many answers, but until we ask the right questions their meaning eludes us."

"...All historians are nonfiction writers, whether we know it or not."

"We need some citizens committed to exploring and producing knowledge, as well as consuming it, and the outcomes canno…"

"...After the more prosperous era of the mid-1990s through around 2008, we seem to have forgotten the truly dreadful m…"

"...You will be offered a period in your life in which to learn and think, and see where it takes you. That is a rare …"

"A friend who did a lot of consulting work when tenure-track jobs were not readily forthcoming once told me that havin…"

"We stand in the midst of a massive reorganization of our intellectual and spiritual life, which has seized all areas …"

"was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as had been of the . When cholera first appeared in the U…"