“This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging—bloodbaths each, bloodbath major… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a… — John Bright Copy Share Image
The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by… — Ada F Kay Copy Share Image
There's a reason the United States opposes the very existence of the International Criminal Court, at least where American war crimes are… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt reasoned, “if the Vice-Presidency led to the Governor Generalship of the Philippines, then the question would be entirely altered.” That post… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Southerner Tom Watson, a populist Jeffersonian from Georgia, faced potential prosecution under the law because his newspaper often opposed Wilson’s war aims… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the… — Dennis Byrne Copy Share Image
“The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“She retired early and, consequently, was in ignorance of the receipt of a telegram by Sylvanus Starr announcing the return of Andy… — Caroline Lockhart Copy Share Image
“They exchanged notes, like children. My grandfather made his out of newspaper clippings and dropped them in her woven baskets, into which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“This giant fleet of American warships – a modern armada – churns across the ocean day and night for a journey of… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Dad’s favorite subject was history, but he taught it with a decidedly west-of-the-Pecos point of view. As the proud son of an… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“She liked a very particular kind of plot: the sort where the pirate kidnaps some virgin damsel, rapes her into loving him,… — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?" "Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of… — Peter Baker Copy Share Image
“A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The casualties at Antietam numbered four times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. More… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
