Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
“Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.”
“What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.”