P
- Camille Paglia on voyages to the past.
- Camille Parmesan asks why climate change is insurmountable.
- William Penn on living with the moderns.
- Ezra Pound on Kulchur.
- Philip Phillips on New World variations.
- Wendell Phillips on the roots of revolution.
- Plutarch on the difficulty of history.
- Poyer and Kelly on mystification of the Mikea.
- Adrian Praetzellis on tolerating ambiguity.
- Praetzellis on having too much fun.
- Terry Pratchett on the future of architecture.
- Ptahhotep on the limits of skill.
R
- Joseph Ransdell on the new conception of science.
- Adrienne Rich on journeys into the past.
- Clara Dice Roe demonstrates the problems with oral history.
- Unnamed Roman Emperor on the good life.
- John Ruskin Laying Stone on Stone
- Steve Russell on the meaning of the repatriation movement.
S
- Jeremy Sabloff on archaeology's role models.
- Carl Sagan on painful lessons learned.
- Carl Sandburg on archaeological treasures.
- Simon Schama on why historians are doomed.
- Arthur Schlesinger on history's effect on the present.
- William Schlesinger on global stewardship
- Heinrich Schliemann on the case for Hasserlik.
- J. William Schopf on the importance of pond scum.
- Carmel Schrire on why she became an archaeologist.
- Sellar and Yeatman on what history is.
- Will Shakespeare on prophesies.
- Moishe Shokeid on melding anthropologist and informant.
- Sir Philip Sidney on why poets are better than historians.
- Maxine Singer on the thread that holds us together.
- Bruce D. Smith on niches and domestication
- Susan Sontag on vanishing beauty.
- Captain Spaulding's (Groucho Marx) greatest contribution to science
- Stephen Spender on wooden ships
- John Steinbeck on the literature of science.
- John Lloyd Stephens on the moral effect of Maya monuments.
- Clarice Stasz Stoll on collective forgetfulness.
- Lawrence Straus on interpreting genetic data.
- Christine Sullivan on the real adventures of Indiana Jones.
T
- T. R. Talbott on the dark and stormy end of the Ice Man.
- Sarah Tarlow on negotiating between rocks and a whirlpool.
- R. E. Taylor on the two cultures.
- Walter Taylor in mid-diatribe, quotes Linda Ellerbee.
- Paul Theroux on evolution's little joke.
- Henry David Thoreau on unremarkable history.
- Henry David Thoreau on what to do with ambitious boobies.
- A. J. Toynbee on using history well.
- Bruce Trigger on the implications of multiple standpoints.
V
- Voltaire on the foundations of history.
- Voltaire on Ancient Tricks
- Von Igelfeld (Alexander McCall Smith) on German archaeology
W
- Anthony F. C. Wallace asks "When is Now?"
- Mary Webb on what is invisible and mute
- Kenneth Weiss on defining evolution
- Kenneth Weiss on finding hybrids
- E. B. White on the future of reading
- Alfred North Whitehead on why knowing the past is useful.
- James Whitley on fishy ideas.
- Walt Whitman on the teeming gulf, the infinite greatness of the past.
- Oscar Wilde on inalienable privileges.
- Oscar Wilde on our duty to history.
- Oscar Wilde on the value of archaeology
- Kate Wilhelm on living with the past.
- Howard Winters on civilization's components.
- Leonard Woolley on the effects of business.
- J.A.A. Worsaae on taking one's country seriously.
- Ronald Wright on the fascination of cannibalism.
