It's wrong to believe that these struggles ended and are reserved now for history lessons and textbooks.
The former Plaid Cymru president, Dafydd Iwan, when he looked more like he did in the days of this picture than he does now, used to sing - in Welsh - of school days that were filled with "lessons history, lessons geography" and "lessons English " all the time.
If European leaders and the voters who elect them glean the right lessons from history and manage to steer their continent away from the edge of the cliff, then we won't see a repeat of that disaster of a global crash.
Robert Venturi's "gentle manifesto, " published as "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" in 1966, called for a reconsideration of the lessons of history and the subtleties of spatial relationships and enriching ornament of the past.
This historic cemetery sponsors special events, such as Sunday in the Park, during which Victorian costumes are invited, and numerous tours for Halloween, lessons in African-American history and more.
With Forbes ASAP, Walsh would share his thoughts about strategy, tactics, preparation and talent in ways that touched on both football and military history but the lessons of which could be used in business.
"President Bush will not allow countries that appear to have ignored the lessons of history and failed for over 30 years to stand up to terrorists, to dissuade us from what is necessary for our defense, " he said.
President Bush would not allow countries that appear to have ignored the lessons of history and failed for over 30 years to stand up to terrorists, he wouldn't allow them to stop us from doing what is necessary in the defense of our country.
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It was once assumed, for instance, that a liberal arts degree holder was numerate and literate and knew how to draw lessons from history, weigh evidence, think, write, speak, debate and learn.
Even so, for young people struggling with drugs, alcohol abuse and violence, the toughest lessons may not be in math and history, but in honesty and self-control.
School history lessons should be overhauled and a British history qualification brought in for 16-year-olds, urges a group of MPs and peers.
The history of banking and finance provides many examples of financial crises, but these lessons of history are easily forgotten.
But President Obama seems intent on learning the lessons of history and the relationship between hatemongering and violence the hard way.
Administration officials are thinking through the lessons of Afghanistan and other recent history.
And now, as then, the productive class of our now gigantic, colony-turned-superpower, learn and teach again, the painful lessons of history.
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The history of inequality suggests it need not be, and offers two lessons.
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Her own experience of history lessons had left her with a dislike of lists and memorising facts - and she says that she wants history to show "the human side of things".
The programs bring traders onto the floor of the exchange, into the pits where options are traded every day, and include classroom sessions on everything from the history of options to lessons on selling covered calls.
The lessons that Bennett draws from recent history are familiar, and not only on the right: If Israel were to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state, what is now the West Bank would quickly become a second Gaza a Hamas-led bastion of Islamic radicalism, a launch pad for rocket fire aimed at Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport.
Given the difficulties in Iraq and Afghanistan, American officers are relearning the history of their own interventions in Latin America and, more important, the lessons of British imperial policing.
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Still, the study of America's history and that of Canada, Brazil and even Germany offers lessons.
And the experience of several countries suggests that, whatever educators and politicians might want, there is a limit to how far history lessons can diverge in their tone from society as a whole.
At a time where the US is reinventing itself, our country would benefit from the experiences gained and lessons learned from the immigrant past of 50 million Hispanics whose history in their mother countries have been fueled by reform and revolution.
Yet why, through history, have so many thinkers looked to the hive for lessons about social organisation and politics?
Cornell, who is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at the school, said the Constitution incorporates lessons learned while the nation was under the Articles of Confederation.
All said, Mr Beinart has produced an original and ambitious study, even if the conclusion he derives from history's slippery lessons is somewhat commonplace: that America must continue to engage with the world but accept the limits of its power and concentrate on rebuilding the economy on which its strength has always rested.
Her course dedicates each of its 13 weeks to discussing and drawing lessons from a work of fiction, biography, autobiography, or history.
On Friday, First Minister Carwyn Jones said the tragedy at Gleision "must never be forgotten" and that lessons must be learned so that such events were "consigned to history".
Khorsandi says that growing up she had been "consumed by coming from an immigrant culture" - and that she used to go to lessons at the weekend to learn about Iranian history.
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