With his brother Curt, he attempted to put Scandinavian history on firmer ground.
Thomas insists that Barry put history back to normal to undo the millions of deaths.
Now put racial history on fast-forward, through the civil rights movement, into an era when it seemed that the best government was color-blind government.
Now the 2003 Yankees, dysfunctional for too long, can put history aside.
Basically it is able to reach into our minds when it seeks to put history on a correct course.
It is putting history in a glass museum case that makes them bridle.
"Our project was to put into question an entire culture and history, not just poetry," he said, "in order to renew Arab thought."
The issue of Sept. 19 will aim to put history back in the hands of artists.
It's putting history back as history, which is about facts.
Solving the mystery of Kennedy's world-changing death, therefore, is essential to any hope of putting history back on track.