In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't… — John Edgar Wideman 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
“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the… — Claudia Clark 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
“Students of American history may recall that Alexander Hamilton had an affair while in public office, but when he quickly confessed publicly… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot.… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
“Phoebe Hurty hired me to write copy for ads about teen aged clothes. I had to wear the clothes I praised. That… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has… — Anohni Copy Share Image
“But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a… — Jay Grewal 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
As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision… — William Barr Copy Share Image
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when… — Bill Maher 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
“Although, approximately 2,800 of the Kennedy assassination documents have been released, only 52 files have not been previously seen. It comes as… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West.… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint. — Michael Israel Copy Share Image
“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a… — Thomas Norman DeWolf 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
