Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Later that same year John F. Kennedy was elected president by a thin margin. The first thing he did was appoint his… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“His voice was so faint that it was audible only to those in the first rows. “I haven’t got much to say,… — Kimberly Tilley Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned. — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
“It has been often said that the winners write history. Cooperatives have been widespread and important in many periods of American history,… — John Curl Copy Share Image
“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.” — Todd Garlington Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Instead, the FHA adopted a… — Charles Abrams Copy Share Image
I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The left’s anti-bullying stance is an enormous lie. It is a purposeful lie. It is a lie designed to disguise the fact… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
“The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
