I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books. — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history. — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history. — Joseph Cummins Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, whites have played a significant role in helping blacks secure freedom and equality. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.” — Sebastian Saviano Copy Share Image
In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
“We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
The goal of any worthwhile and effective journal of opinion analysis in navigating what is an increasingly tribal and divisive period in… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the very prevalent impression, indeed we might say the practically universal persuasion, that there was nothing worth while talking about in… — James Joseph Walsh Copy Share Image
“On Thursday, February 19, 2015, two months after the United States and Cuba announced a willingness to re-establish normal diplomacy, after over… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Born John Paul in Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747, he started his seagoing career as an apprentice aboard the sail ship… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“On November 27, 1493, when Columbus returned to Navidad, he found that the 39 crew members that he had left behind had… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“Newt Gingrich is one of the most successful political leaders of our time. Yes, we disagreed with virtually everything he did, but… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“After the 11 September attack," March editorializes one morning, "amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“schools and teacher forbites the students to tell a lie, but they teach them lies,” — Zybejta Beta Metani' Marashi Copy Share Image
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options. — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
