The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“I came here from Kansas,” he announced to his captive. “This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes in this… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg shot off. But I feel like it was bigger somehow.” Hawkins flipped through pages of Civil War pictures. “At work, I mix dyes and put them in a machine. I’m thirty-six and I’ve spent almost half my life… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about the Lee-Jackson gatherings I'd attended and asked how he felt about people still celebrating the Confederacy. "I'm happy they have the freedom to celebrate those men, the same way we celebrate [Martin Luther] King here," he… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share
“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state. — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“Cook,” the historian Bernard Smith speculates, “increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the benefits of… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share
“At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was presented with… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
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