For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
My favorite forgotten President in American history is James Buchanan, who in defending really robust and sharp-elbowed debates said, "I like the… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“For all his early-morning bravado, Bannon sounded as if he still couldn’t quite believe it all. And what an incredible story it… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Sixty years prior to the death of “Che” Guevara and high in the same Bolivian highlands, Butch Cassidy and Harry A. Longabaugh,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual… — Robert Locke Copy Share Image
“Eighty years ago on July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared while… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“It is spring 2007, and the block-long security lines into the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) are missing now… — Katie King Copy Share Image
“Two centuries ago, the United States settled into a permanent political order, after fourteen years of violence and heated debate. Two centuries… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president… — Raul Labrador Copy Share Image
And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now,… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
“So Dad has joined the others up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history,… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Given the central role he had played in the greatest political upset in American history, the reporter suggested that it had all… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings… — Henry Lewis Mencken Copy Share Image
“Joseph Smith, its enterprisingly mendacious inventor, went to the lengths of composing a complete new holy book, the Book of Mormon, inventing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
“In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Boston's journey through nearly four centuries of change is the stuff of American history. From starting a Revolution on the waterfront to… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image