To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual…

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of…

— Bela Fleck

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

— N. K. Jemisin

“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.”

— C.B. Huesing

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

— Rhiannon Giddens

There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time…

— Rhiannon Giddens

I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first…

— Rhiannon Giddens

I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music -…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would…

— Rhiannon Giddens

It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.

— Rhiannon Giddens

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my…

— Rhiannon Giddens

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New…

— Rush Limbaugh

Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America,…

— Henry David Thoreau

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't…

— Aldis Hodge