If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan. — William Sadler Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“General Gerardo Machado always had an eye for the ladies and enjoyed partying at the swankiest nightclubs in Havana. For a time… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
“Schools and teacher forbid the students to tell a lie, but they teach them lies.” — Beta Metani' Marashi Copy Share Image
American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic.… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president… — Raul Labrador Copy Share Image
If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least… — Samuel Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“Nay, so great was our famine that a Salvage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and eat… — John Smith Copy Share Image