In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
As a Polish American, I grew up hearing the phrase 'nothing about us without us.' To Eastern Europeans, the vow is a… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named… — Tom Rooney Copy Share Image
“The stark reality is that the early days of the final end times prophesied in the Bible have already begun. Most of… — John Price Copy Share Image
For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity,… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
Clement Attlee, the man who led us out of the rubble of the Second World War and into a more modern, egalitarian… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
“In the train, I read a special issue of Der Spiegel, about the Germans who had been driven out in ethnic cleansing… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“You’ve seen what this drug can do. I assure you it is just the beginning. If jurda parem is unleashed on the… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Weale had joined the Scouts from the regular army within a few weeks of it being formed. The regiment’s ethos was inspired… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
“In the end, the cats were rounded up and put into a room. My father went into the room with his First… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and… — Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales Copy Share Image
“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
A lotta stuff has been written about me that I never said. Stories that were lies. One guy wrote that young as… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
American soldiers wore khaki uniforms during World War II. Men's khaki trousers became fashionable after the war, as homecoming GI's decided to… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Behind Trump's promise to 'make America great again' lie many fallacies. The most important fallacy is that America's place in the world… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that tongue-kissing was coined as an insult to the French reputation of sexual promiscuity. Apparently, American soldiers returned home… — Alexia Landeau Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated… — Martin Filler 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
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Well, that's exactly the wrong attitude. That is not the attitude they had in World War II. You're attitude is that freedom… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Ferguson also takes a swipe at the conventional wisdom surrounding aspects of World War I. “The key to the Allies’ victory was… — Luke Williams Copy Share Image
There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years… Such is the fate of rich… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
“What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.…… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image