The document discusses the importance of history and provides biographical information about public figures who studied history in college. It contains quotes about the value of history from writers, politicians, and historians. Many notable people graduated with degrees in history from prestigious universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, and Yale. History is seen as important for understanding people, events, and philosophical ideas over time.

1. The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din, of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. John Greenleaf Whittier

2. Lauren Hill (Singer) Studied History at Columbia University

3. The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

4. Sasha Baron Cohen (Ali G & Borat) Graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Modern History

5. History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs. Bill Nye, History of the United States

6. Graduated from Oxford with a degree in History Louis Theroux (Broadcaster)

7. History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

8. Graduated from Oxford with a degree in History Al Murray (Comedy Genius)

9. For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell. George E. Wilson

10. Ed Norton (Actor) Graduated with a degree in History from Yale University

11. If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! George Macaulay Trevelyan

12. Shakira (Singer) Graduated with a degree in World History from UCLA Los Angeles.

13. History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner

14. Amanda Peet (Actress) Graduated History at Columbia University

15. We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. Dick Gregory

16. Graduated from Oxford with a degree in History Alan Bennett Writer

17. History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. Winston Churchill

18. Graduated from Oxford with a degree in Modern History Michael Palin Monty Python star and Broadcaster

19. Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree. Michael Crichton, Timeline

20. Graduated from Cambridge with a degree in History Salman Rushdie Writer

21. Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. African Proverb