Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history. — Joseph Cummins Copy Share Image
Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. — George Burns Copy Share Image
“Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.” — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
I understood…that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.” — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
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
If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today. — Kwasi Kwarteng 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
Let the record show, Black history is American history, and I look forward to sharing this rich history with my family, friends,… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history. — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
When you decide that Black history is not a part of American history or when you decide that any book that talks… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to… — John F. Kerry 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
The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“It is important for upcoming activists to study American history, as well as political and philosophical thought. It is unlikely that what… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“[Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bothered. He could walk the streets… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The name Camp Columbia came from a historic and rather poetic name for the United States. It was founded in 1898, for… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba 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
“Susan Margaret Collins was born on December 7, 1952 in Caribou, Maine and is presently the senior United States Senator from Maine.… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“When one considers American history as a whole, it is hard to think of any very long period in which it could… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“By the seventh year of the Bush-Cheney presidency, Bush had attached signing statements to about 150 bills enacted since he took office,… — Charlie Savage Copy Share Image
“Assessing Miller's rebuttal and the 1895 convention, W.E.B. Du Bois made a sobering observation. Miller had, on some fundamental level, misunderstood the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned. — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history. — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
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