“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
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“On November 27, 1493, when Columbus returned to Navidad, he found that the 39 crew members that he had left behind had… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as… — Michael Portillo 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
“Westerns are American history brought to life. Those fuckers were badasses, Callie,” he told me with a smirk. “Plus, John Wayne’s the… — Nicole Jacquelyn Copy Share Image
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“During the “Bay of Pigs Invasion” One Douglas “B-26” airplane with counterfeit Cuban markings was fired on and crashed into the sea… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, whites have played a significant role in helping blacks secure freedom and equality. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental… — Harriet A. Jacobs 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
“Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the… — Eric Jay Dolin 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
“Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that… — Joe Biden 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
In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
In American history, Black people are usually the ones doing the work, pushing the boundaries of what America is supposed to mean,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
