Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
David Hackett Fischer

Born: December 2, 1935 (age 89)
Bio: David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends to narrative histories of significant events to explorations of historiography.
Known for:
- Washington's Crossing (2004)
- Historians' fallacies (1970)