There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“One of the most commonly used American history textbooks is The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. A thousand-page volume, published by… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“A total of 779 prisoners have been held at Guantánamo since the facility was opened on January 11, 2002. Of those, 8… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Shifting from a superior/inferior paradigm to a strength-in-difference paradigm was kind of a good news/bad news situation. On the downside, I had… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The Republicans did not set out to establish a strong national state or to facilitate the industrial revolution. They believed strongly in… — David R. Goldfield Copy Share Image
“The 80's in America were about building a better future here in America. We came into the generation dancing. We saw an… — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments,… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“The John Locke Foundation also sponsored the North Carolina History Project, which aimed to reorient the state’s teaching of its history by… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“Lynum had plenty of information to share. The FBI's files on Mario Savio, the brilliant philosophy student who was the spokesman for… — Seth Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“The United States Constitution turned 225 years old in 2012. It is the central document of American history and politics. From all… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
“I once two beautiful children playing together. One was a fair white child; the other was her slave, and also her sister.… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Jimmy Hoffa’s first notoriety in union work was as the leader of a successful strike by the “Strawberry Boys.” He became identified… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It was the economy that troubled most people prior to World War II. Europe, especially Germany, was dealing with a deep worldwide… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I may be in deep slop if the findings of a new study published in the latest issue of Neurology , journal… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He's unlike anybody… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“There was enough intimidation, witness tampering and foul play to go around. Many books have been published about this subject, witnesses have… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Freed slaves returned to Africa settled in a section of what was known as the “Pepper Coast” and on July 26, 1847,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“This place where she worked certainly didn't make it look as if she continued to believe her calling was to change the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Assessing Miller's rebuttal and the 1895 convention, W.E.B. Du Bois made a sobering observation. Miller had, on some fundamental level, misunderstood the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“General Gerardo Machado always had an eye for the ladies and enjoyed partying at the swankiest nightclubs in Havana. For a time… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Susan Margaret Collins was born on December 7, 1952 in Caribou, Maine and is presently the senior United States Senator from Maine.… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
