“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
Millennials are on track to be the first generation in American history worse off than their parents, I know I speak for… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere. ... [I]n a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of… — Sarah Palin 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
“The Women’s March was the biggest single protest in American history. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities like New York,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“On October 26, 1963, Nikita Khrushchev contacted President Kennedy and offered to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
John Kerry's wife Teresa Heinz is on the cover of Newsweek magazine this week and they said that if he is elected… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. — Ethan Suplee Copy Share Image
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we… — Ray Mabus Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP. — Stephen K. Bannon Copy Share Image
We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
