You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings… — Henry Lewis Mencken Copy Share Image
“Joseph Smith, its enterprisingly mendacious inventor, went to the lengths of composing a complete new holy book, the Book of Mormon, inventing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Given the central role he had played in the greatest political upset in American history, the reporter suggested that it had all… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“[P]ressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has had bad consequences too. The new ethnic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“As the bus headed into the night, I noticed that the bench seat in the back of the bus was vacant. So… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Regional tensions and differences, especially North versus South, remained profound. So did ethnic feelings. Laws from the 1920s had drastically reduced legal… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“The “Sons of the Pioneers” are amongst America’s earliest Country/Western singing groups. One weekend we’d drive south of the border to Tijuana,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
John Kerry's wife Teresa Heinz is on the cover of Newsweek magazine this week and they said that if he is elected… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Among the worst episodes in American history are those moments when the federal government deploys the full weight of its power against… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is… — Paul Sarbanes Copy Share Image
I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In American history, it's about hard work and self-reliance. It's not about collecting giveaways or being on unemployment forever. That the economy… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
As the most radical agenda in American history comes through the 117th Congress, the Whip Team will play an important role in… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones… — William Barr Copy Share Image
With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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