“He was a man’s man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and… — Jordan L. Hawk Copy Share Image
“In Havana, Vito Genovese, the patriarch of the Genovese family, met with Luciano in his room at the luxurious Hotel Nacional. Genovese… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba 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
“You have probably seen the order from Washington which cuts down the pay for colored troops from $13 to $10. Of course… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“For this equality belongs to the post-Renaissance world of ideology-of political magic and the alchemical science” of politics. Envy is the basis… — M.E. Bradford Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“As the late Charles Colson put it, “Our place is on our knees, in the streets helping people in need, winning our… — Erwin W. Lutzer 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
“While under the Spanish flag, the Crown rigorously controlled the number of slaves allowed into Cuba and charged the settlers a 20%… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Although, approximately 2,800 of the Kennedy assassination documents have been released, only 52 files have not been previously seen. It comes as… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a… — Thomas Norman DeWolf Copy Share Image
“Nor could I fail to recall my friendship with Howard K. Beale, professor of American History at the University of North Carolina.… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“I know he’s had his problems in the past… “He can’t keep his hands off a liquor bottle at the best of… — Diana Palmer 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
“On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
“For the first phase of American history, “hope was chiefly expressed through a Christian story that gave meaning to suffering and pleasure… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms:… — H. Samy Alim Copy Share Image
I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration.… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
“Today, many whites oppose all social reform as "welfare programs for blacks." They ignore the fact that poor whites have employment, education,… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey 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
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“As the bus headed into the night, I noticed that the bench seat in the back of the bus was vacant. So… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Regional tensions and differences, especially North versus South, remained profound. So did ethnic feelings. Laws from the 1920s had drastically reduced legal… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“The “Sons of the Pioneers” are amongst America’s earliest Country/Western singing groups. One weekend we’d drive south of the border to Tijuana,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the most commonly used American history textbooks is The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. A thousand-page volume, published by… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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![“That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/558/jeffrey-rosen-13180_american-history_that-strain-of-anti-monopoly-crusading-e_1868677.jpg)
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![“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms: "To become black is to become an ethnographer who translates and searches around in an effort to understand what it means to be black in North America."…” quote by H. Samy Alim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/h-samy-alim-175060_african-american_awad-ibrahim-sudanese-professor-of-educa_1372530.jpg)
