When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson Copy Share Image
“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places.… — James Ellroy 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
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
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history. — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Joe Biden is the worst president of my lifetime and might just be the worst president in American history. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Now, thanks to President [Barack] Obama and the policies of Democrats when we have been able to achieve 73 straight months of… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and… — Glenn Beck 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
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
“Klan violence was unquestionably the worst outbreak of domestic terrorism in American history and Grant dealt with it aggressively, using all the… — Ron Chernow 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
“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“On November 27, 1493, when Columbus returned to Navidad, he found that the 39 crew members that he had left behind had… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“After the 11 September attack," March editorializes one morning, "amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Newt Gingrich is one of the most successful political leaders of our time. Yes, we disagreed with virtually everything he did, but… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history. — KRS-One 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
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
“American History from Rutgers University and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil. He lives in Columbia County, NY, with his wife… — Rachel Pasqua Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“From the ashes of the Triangle Company fire began to rise one of the most dramatic and far-reaching [changes] in American history-one… — 1999 Ric Burns and James Sanders New York Copy Share Image
“Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve,… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
“...the fight that political philosophers have always identified as the central conflict in human history: that between the individual and society. Thus… — Thaddeus Russell Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Memorial Day is rooted deep in American history and has spanned all of America's major wars since the Civil War. Originally called… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
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