Age Quote by H. W. Brands

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

— Anson Mount

“We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only…

— Glenn Beck

I love history but was taught badly at school.

— Cathy Newman

With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on…

— H. W. Brands

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

— Kevin Costner

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

— Sam Abell

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes…

— Jack L. Chalker

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college in 2008…

— Oliver Stone

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

— Emma Watson

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

— George Burns

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

I am a great student and fan of history.

— Zeenat Aman