I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Klan violence was unquestionably the worst outbreak of domestic terrorism in American history and Grant dealt with it aggressively, using all the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you look throughout American history, it has been protests and mass movements and the people rising up that has moved to… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
When my French side thinks of 'bohemian,' it imagines Montparnasse authors and absinthe - that kind of aesthetic. The American definition might… — Camille Rowe Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school.… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“How do you know all this?" "Well I don't know what you people from Colorado call it, but around here we call… — Tara A. Fuller Copy Share Image
“We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for… — Heather Cox Richardson 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
“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great… — George Packer Copy Share Image
