One of the lessons that history teaches us is that history often teaches us the wrong lessons.

A Cautionary History of US Monetary Tightening

Europe s history rules out emulating the US model.

History will judge us unfavorably if we fail.

Some of us honestly thought that history was over.

Mere promises by the recipient, history tells us, are not enough.

But history teaches us that what follows is usually nothing good.

Has history not taught us that violence will only breed more violence?

Our recent history has provided us several bad examples in that regard.

Fourthly, history teaches us that there is no accountability without periodic elections.

China has a history of forcing scholars and dissidents like us into exile.

History will lie for eternity in the hands of each one of us.

Recent history has given us graphic evidence of what would happen if we do.

History will judge us harshly if we fail to live up to these commitments.

The Middle East News blog shares with us a brief history of Syria here.

His message to us was very, very basic Obama First, I acknowledge your history.

History has taught us that nothing made by human hands is ever truly permanent.

In conclusion, history stands ready to judge us on the outcome of this Meeting.

That is a charge that we must not permit history to levy against us.

If we do not seize this moment for action, history could well pass us by.

So what lessons does history have to teach us about our current global economic predicament?

As with Mexico, Haiti s proximity to the US has cut both ways in its history.

History Economic development originated in the post war period of reconstruction initiated by the US.

At this meeting, let us resolve to make poverty history, peace permanent and freedom universal.

Improving the lives of our peoples is the criterion by which history will judge us.

History tells us that important progress is made rarely through consensus, but through bold decisions.

So what he did was to teach us Jewish Holocaust history, and so huddled around books with photographs of people in Auschwitz, I learned the melancholic history of my people through the melancholic history of another people.

Their expulsion in late 1943 involved one of the bloodiest battles in US Marine Corps history.

One of the lessons that history teaches us is that history often teaches us the wrong lessons. For India s nationalist leaders, this meant that every foreigner with a briefcase should be viewed as the thin edge of a neo imperial wedge.

Sixty years later, the Arab Israeli conflict reminds us that the Jews journey back to history continues.

What history tells us here is that defaults are not the privilege of poor, under governed countries.

But if we believe that if we put a lid on history and leave it behind us we run a risk that history will resurrect itself with all its horrors.

Language allows us to delve into the history and spirituality of our people and teaches us to feel and to live in a certain way.

History has taught us that there is no bread without freedom, the Solidarity program stated a year later.

History shows us that all civilizations have been enriched and developed through dialogue and interaction with other civilizations.

So what big history can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power with collective learning.

Based on a settlement last week, BP will now pay the largest criminal penalty in US history 4.5 billion.

Previously, private investors in the US simply did not lend to mortgage seekers whose credit history was below prime.

Robert Kennedy once said that few of us have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.

But that takes time, as the history of the US the world s most successful union born of emergency amply demonstrates.

Similar economic problems permeate the history of the last few decades, from South Korea to Western Europe to the US.

History suggests that the US ought to think twice before continuing its effort to remake Afghan society or its government.

But what separates us from Saakashvili is that we understand that history, geography, and economics dictate close ties to Russia.

The History at the End of History

History teaches us that rising powers inevitably compete with status quo leading powers, and that this conflict often leads to war.