“In New York the curriculum guide for 11th-grade American history tells students that there were three "foundations" for the Constitution: the European Enlightenment, the "Haudenosaunee political system", and the antecedent colonial experience. Only the Haudenosaunee political system receives explanatory subheadings:… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“In 1856 the Know-Nothings even ran a former president, Millard Fillmore, as their presidential candidate. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they could never… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“Yet the old faith in the power of Bryce's "amazing solvent" to fulfill Washington's conception of Americans as "one people" held fast. However much… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“[P]ressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has had bad consequences too. The new ethnic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals from all… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“[I]s there not something basically hostile to the actor's art in the consanguinity principle? After all, what is acting but an exercise in dissimulation?… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“In New York the curriculum guide for 11th-grade American history tells students that there were three "foundations" for the Constitution: the European Enlightenment, the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“Though Fidel came to boast of his Marxism-Leninism, he himself never joined the Communist Party. As the revolution careened along, the Communists may even… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“To what extent did Castro at this point conceal secret communist purposes? He later said that he hid radical views in order to hold… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“In 1974, after testimony from ethnic spokesmen denouncing the melting pot as a conspiracy to homogenize America, Congress passed the Ethnic Heritage Studies Program… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“Multiculturalism" arises as a reaction against Anglo- or Eurocentrism; but at what point does it mutate into an ethnocentrism of its own?” — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
“In the Skokie case, it upheld the right of neo-Nazis to parade down the streets of an Illinois town inhabited by Holocaust survivors and… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share
