American civil war Quote by Amanda Foreman

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it…

— Amanda Foreman

Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s, she was…

— Amanda Foreman

“trying his best to discourage them,”

— Amanda Foreman

When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.

— Amanda Foreman

Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests…

— Amanda Foreman

As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.

— Amanda Foreman

For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had…

— Amanda Foreman

The creators of Wonder Woman had no interest in proving an actual link to the past. In some parts of the academic world, however,…

— Amanda Foreman

Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean…

— Amanda Foreman

Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the…

— Amanda Foreman

In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under…

— Amanda Foreman

It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an understanding of…

— Amanda Foreman