Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Tiger Woods experienced perhaps the greatest fall from grace of any celebrity in American history. — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a… — Michael Baumgartner Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan. — William Sadler Copy Share Image
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados,… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“Tentacles is my term — the Tentacles are the evil tasks that invade my life. Like, for example, my American History class… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
“Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Not even much survives as memory. Many of the most notable names of the summer—Richard Byrd, Sacco and Vanzetti, Gene Tunney, even… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Humanistic propaganda screams at us everywhere we go. “You deserve better.” “There’s no one like you.” “Stand up for yourself.” And after… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“It is spring 2007, and the block-long security lines into the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) are missing now… — Katie King Copy Share Image
“Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn… — Nancy Omeara Copy Share Image
I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history." — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. The teacher, Mr. Reed, said that in… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Boston's journey through nearly four centuries of change is the stuff of American history. From starting a Revolution on the waterfront to… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Efforts to remove the Christian faith from subjects like American history distort the content of the subject. Just as wrong is the… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
“Woodrow Wilson has just made the decision to take part in World War I. What was he feeling then? Did he know… — Zachary Crosby Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
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