“While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different.… — Rebecca Traister 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
“During World War II, a few years after Norma Jeane’s time in an orphanage, thousands of children were evacuated from the air… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
“With boarding passes in hand Adeline led her children, each carrying a small suitcase, up the long gangway onto the Dominion Monarch,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“In World War II, 35,933 AAF planes were lost in combat and accidents. The surprise of the attrition rate is that only… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Welch became more confident that the press was reporting his words more accurately, but that worked against him because his discourses on… — Edward H. Miller Copy Share Image
“Soon after World War II, a tired-looking woman entered a store and asked the owner for enough food to make a Christmas… — RBC Ministries Copy Share Image
“The inventor of GDP cautioned against including in its calculation expenditure for the military, advertising, and the financial sector,33 but his advice… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Patton’s personality was immense, but his battlefield achievements matched it. ‘I want you men to remember that no bastard ever won a… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders …… — Harry Leslie Smith Copy Share Image
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the filling… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
However, there is a fundamental difference between the issue related to Japan's history and our negotiations with China. What is it all… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“It was a glorious experience for the children to travel by rail and the panoramic views of Africa through the big glass… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Germany is not the only country that one could call post-heroic. But there is an additional aspect for Germany when it comes… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
“While stationed in Fort Jackson, I experienced racial prejudice for the first time and came to the understanding that humans are not… — Omanson, Oliver Copy Share Image
“One victim, Harrison F. Finley, was a World War II veteran and the father of two young children. He was shot to… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“Despite shared language, ethnicity, and culture, alliances nurtured deep, long-standing hostilities toward one another, the original source of which was often unknown.… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
The president sets the tone. He creates the atmosphere, and that can be enlightened, progressive, or it can be intimidating, depending on… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“When the Germans surrendered with their arms raised high, holding a white flag, they weren't at all how i imagined them: hard,… — Mariko Nagai Copy Share Image
“How could sixty-two million people vote for someone they heard on tape bragging about repeated sexual assault? How could he attack women,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises… — Joseph S. Nye Jr Copy Share Image
“Among other jobs that we did, my brother Bill and I were shoe shine boys in Jersey City and Hoboken during the… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image