"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905-6
"Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." – Karl Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape . . . a cry in the street.
While most of the works in this database are listed in the order of composition, these historical pieces are listed in the order of the events described.
