Why Study History?
We exist in an understandable universe.
Across the expanse of human history, Good Fortune and Calamity have
resulted because people have chosen to act as they did,
whether in ignorance or with conscious forethought. To study the past brings to us a vast palette of
human events, by which we can connect our own lives to those
who have come before us, and better understand our own Good Fortune and
Calamity.Esse quam videri -- "to
be, rather than to seem" -- is a guide not only to
understanding what has been, but also to what we are, and
should be.
Books
Solon the
Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens
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Early Greek
Lawgivers
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Nothing Less than
Victory: The Will to Fight and the Lessons of History
Leading a Seminar, Tel Aviv University, June 2, 2008
Detail from North Doors, the Battisterio, Florence.
John David Lewis, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate
Professor of Political Science
Duke University
Senior Research Scholar
in History and Classics,
Social Philosophy and Policy Center,
Bowling Green State
University
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