Congolese friends have often said to me that we wouldn't be in such dire straits if we weren't so rich.

The legacy of King Leopold very much lives on in the Congo. Here is a country which since colonial times probably experienced the worst bloodshed of any territory in Africa.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.