History, the collective experience of Mankind, teaches us about the present and the future. How do we look at events of the past? Do they help to solve our present political or economical conditions and conflicts?The essays in this anthology derive from the Engelsberg Seminar in 2019 that dealt with these questions. From perspectives as varied as the History of Ideas, Evolutionary Psychology, and Ideologies - amongst others - the writers apply history to today's concerns such as International Relations, Geopolitics, Economics, and the role of the individual and human nature in history. Perhaps it is only through applied history that we can find our way forward.With: Erica Benner, Writer and researcher; John Bew, King's College, London; Philip Bobbitt, Columbia University; Vernon Bogdanor, King's College, London; Michael Burleigh, London School of Economics; Cory J Clark, Durham University; Christopher Coker, London School of Economics; Jonathan Fenby, Writer and journalist; Niall Ferguson, Stanford University; Janne Haaland Matlary, Oslo University; Josef Joffe, Hoover Institution, Stanford; Rob Johnson, University of Oxford; Elisabeth Kendall, Pembroke College, Oxford; Iain Martin, Columnist and writer; Rana Mitter, University of Oxford; Andrew Monaghan, Royal United Services Institute; Fraser Nelson, Journalist and commentator; Gudrun Persson, Stockholm University; Peter Ricketts, Retired British diplomat; Brendan Simms, Forum on Geopolitics, Cambridge; Nathan Shachar, Journalist and writer; Kori Schake, American Enterprise Institute; Karin Svanborg-Sjövall, Journalist and writer, CEO of Timbro; Emma Sky, Yale University; Maurizio Viroli, Princeton University; Cader Walton, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; and Yu Jie, London School of Economics.