The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

Bluntness is a virtue.

It covers American history from an entirely different perspective. You're learning about things that have only been uncovered in the past decade, about what really went on, and you're learning about a different side of the history which you know so well and a side that you also never even heard.