American history is not clean.

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

— Ben Fountain

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

— Colson Whitehead

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

— Michael Baumgartner

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

— Lisa Murkowski

The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history.

— Jamelle Bouie

As the most radical agenda in American history comes through the 117th Congress, the Whip Team will play an important role in making sure…

— Ronny Jackson

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt…

— Mark Doty

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

— Rush Limbaugh

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

— Jim Walsh

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the…

— Harold Washington

We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn,…

— Mitch Daniels

The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.

— Van Jones

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as…

— Edward Abbey

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and…

— Malcolm X