We didn't want to come up with a Top 10 list or a countdown. The History Channel is not going to tell the world what the 10 most important days are. That's not what this is about.

Historians advised us not to select too recent events. They felt, and we agreed, that you need time to pass before you have the kind of historical perspective that we wanted to reflect in these hours.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

And that is something that doctors need to be aware of. It should be a regular part of the history of a patient. Do you have any sexual problems? Do you have any pain with sexual activity?

I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us, such that, when we hear any secret revealed, a secret about a grandfather, or an uncle, or a secret about the battle of Dresden in 1945, our lives are made suddenly clearer to us, as the unnatural heaviness of unspoken truth is dispersed. For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung.

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.