There are few instances when American history offers us…

It's very easy for the U.S. or Western Europe to have this moral line of right versus wrong, and you go, 'Well, that's breaking…

— Bryan Fogel

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to…

— Hilary Mantel

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

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an…

— Paul Auster

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

— Mike Pence

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