Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
“There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the American Revolution--the shoot-out at the… — Josh Barkan Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college.… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. — Edward Furlong Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
The Founders surely never imagined that a three-fifths majority would be the standard requirement for passing legislation in the upper chamber, and… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
“On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it… — Patricia Nelson Limerick Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“But now, the new president-elect—after the most astonishing upset in American history—was on tenterhooks waiting for Murdoch.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“For all his early-morning bravado, Bannon sounded as if he still couldn’t quite believe it all. And what an incredible story it… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
