American Quote by Graydon Carter

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

— Paula Gunn Allen

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets…

— Studs Terkel

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of…

— Paula Gunn Allen

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

The idea that America used to be great is, in the minds of a lot of people who were oppressed by America, and remain…

— Cord Jefferson

I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those…

— Laurie Graham

I think a lot of people's memories of the '90s are nostalgic. The economy was pretty strong, there was good TV and movies, yet…

— Steve Kornacki

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had…

— Bill Bryson

Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time…

— Tom Brokaw

People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens…

— Timothy D. Snyder

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a…

— Daniel Yankelovich

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust