Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“On February 23, 1945, one of the most famous photographs in American history was taken atop Mount Suribachi, as five American soldiers… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college.… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
“Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966—A fire that destroyed the city’s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that.… — Karyn Parsons Copy Share Image
Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
“The political beauty of our online age is that it’s now actually feasible—and urgently necessary—to reengage the public in just this way.… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“In the Cuban House of Representatives in 1955, Díaz-Balart spoke out against the amnesty granted to Castro by Batista. He went on… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“A Conspiracy Theory that took hold was introduced by Anthony “Tony” Summers, the respected author of The Kennedy Conspiracy, published in 1980… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Sixty years prior to the death of “Che” Guevara and high in the same Bolivian highlands, Butch Cassidy and Harry A. Longabaugh,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual… — Robert Locke Copy Share Image
“For all his early-morning bravado, Bannon sounded as if he still couldn’t quite believe it all. And what an incredible story it… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“American History from Rutgers University and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil. He lives in Columbia County, NY, with his wife… — Rachel Pasqua Copy Share Image
“From the ashes of the Triangle Company fire began to rise one of the most dramatic and far-reaching [changes] in American history-one… — 1999 Ric Burns and James Sanders New York Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“...the fight that political philosophers have always identified as the central conflict in human history: that between the individual and society. Thus… — Thaddeus Russell Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve,… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Politics is not something most people have to do every day. Their daily lives are much more influenced by job opportunities, whether… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Memorial Day is rooted deep in American history and has spanned all of America's major wars since the Civil War. Originally called… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
Millennials are on track to be the first generation in American history worse off than their parents, I know I speak for… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump pledged to eliminate our national debt 'over a period of eight years.' Now two… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
“In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
ESPN wouldn't allow any columnist to publish a piece saying this is the greatest July 4th in American history because the Supreme… — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
“This was supposedly an Honors American History class, for seniors only. What deep, dark secrets of American History needed to be kept… — Melodie Starkey Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
Now, thanks to President [Barack] Obama and the policies of Democrats when we have been able to achieve 73 straight months of… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
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