American history Quote by Frederick Jackson Turner

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

— Frederick Jackson Turner

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the…

— Philip Anschutz

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

— William Loren Katz

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

— Luiz Bolognesi

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original…

— Beau Bridges

Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people,…

— George Will

Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into…

— Tom Tancredo

History is all explained by geography.

— Robert Penn Warren

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

— Frank Waters

What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The…

— Peter Diamandis

“One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they…

— Joan Didion