Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it…

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

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

— William H. Prescott

“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

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

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

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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

— Pat Paulsen

“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work,…

— James T. Patterson

“dark say: berthenia belle never forget the tongue hid name”

— Cathleen Margaret

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

Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power -…

— David Harsanyi

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

— Jim Walsh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

“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