Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.

Here thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,

and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com.

Hello, my friends, this is Dennis Prager, and this is a history hour.

Periodically, I devote an hour to a major new work of history, because if we don't know what happened before us, we can't understand the world, and you know my love of clarity, and only history affords us any clarity about why we got to where we are.

Plus, there's nothing more enthralling.

It's like the greatest ongoing soap opera ever written, and that is the works of history.

Now, I happen to have, apparently, I have finally admitted, I have a bias on behalf of

British historians because they disproportionately are the historians whom I end up interviewing,

and we have another example here, by the name of Charles Emerson, which has two M's incidentally, who is actually, according

to his bio, you are actually Sir Australian, but I detected no Australian accent.

Have you given that up?

I'm afraid the Australian accent comes back when I go to Australia, but living in the

other kingdom for the last 30-odd years,

it seems to have faded away.

That is it.

It does come back when you go back to Australia?

Oh, absolutely.

Well, the Australian accent, a bit like the Irish accent, is a very sympathetic accent.

And I think what I mean by that is that when you speak to somebody who does have a strong Australian accent,

you sort of...

You lapse into it.

...