Historian Of Modern Age

🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

🇺🇸Carl L. Becker

Philosophy

1873–1945

"The Declaration was essentially an attempt to prove that rebellion was not the proper word for what they were doing."

🇺🇸Bernard Bailyn

Education

1922–2020

"What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right."

"The modern age did not so much invent new forms of migration as alter drastically the means and conditions of the old forms."

Heinrich von Treitschke

Politics

Pan-Germanism

1834–1896

"God will see to it that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race."

🇮🇹Agostino Borromeo

Education

1944–2024

"As historians, it is not for us to judge, but to clarify."

🇺🇸George Bancroft

Politics

1800–1891

"George Bancroft Papers, 1823-1890 - Manuscripts and Archives, New York Public Library"

🇩🇪Götz Aly

Science

b. 1947

"In one of his central pronouncements, Hitler promised 'the creation of a socially just state,' a model society that would' continue to eradicate all barriers.'"

🇺🇸Charles A. Beard

Economics

1874–1948

"I present, for what it is worth, and may prove to be worth, the following bill of axioms or aphorisms on public administration, as fitting this important occasion."

🇩🇪Golo Mann

Literature

1909–1994

"“We cannot have another world war. War is the wrong word. We should ban the term ‘World War III’ and say instead apocalypse or holocaust."