Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
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When my father decided to instill in my two brothers and me his love for the outdoors - a love that he… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“A historian once speculated on what would happen if a time-traveller from 1945 arrived back in Europe just before the First World… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
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We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“While in the final analysis each of his campaigns was properly authorized in general terms (for not even Patton could free-lance in… — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
“Violet and I love dressing up, and scarves are the perfect detective accessories. Women working as spies during World War II got… — Gertrude Chandler Warner Copy Share Image
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If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
What happened after World War I was disgraceful. Most veterans, like my great-uncle, were squashed back into place. Congress couldn't pass an… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
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The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
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I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
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Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
How lovely." The old lady sighed. "An office romance. I always wanted an office romance. Of course I never really had a… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
At every stage since World War II, people have assumed that what's happening today will happen forever. Universally, that's been wrong. I… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
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