While Melville could not have known the particulars of Bush v. Gore and the current campaign in Afghanistan, he knew well the forces that shape our history.
Unfortunately, in the engineering profession, especially the tech world, a powerful and divisive narrative is already in place that continues to shape our history, the people that enter our profession and our culture.
Edmund Wilson dismissed Civil War-era poetry as "versified journalism," but Faith Barrett argues that it has "phenomenal formal range" and played a key role in shaping our history.
"Greenwich Mean Time is part of our inheritance, and we should remain loyal to our past, which has shaped our history and is respected worldwide," a reader wrote on The Mail's Web site.
Alwyn Lindsey, AP's director of international archive, says: "The AP archive footage, combined with the British Movietone collection, creates an incredible visual journey of the people and events that have shaped our history.
From the iconic to the bizarre, AP's director of international archive Alwyn Lindsey said the new footage "creates an incredible visual journey of the people and events that have shaped our history".
I take that monstrous crew seriously, of course, and really labor to use elements of the fantastic to explore some of the terrors and fantasies that govern our lives, and that have shaped our history and our interactions with our families and our environments, but I do find that I blush when telling polite strangers my own book titles.
Kati Marton, in "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History," argues that, in a time when the Presidency entails significant physical isolation, the role of the First Spouse the first person the President speaks to in the morning and the last at night is crucial.
As we move further into what might be called the Sociotechnocene — with increasingly more interactions, decisions, and impact being made by globally distributed people and algorithms — the myriad human social dynamics that have shaped our history have become far more visible and measurable than ever before.
They have shaped our history, our cities and our cultures.
