Civil war Quote by James Parton

“Of course, the political history of the United States is exactly the reverse. It is in large measure the history of a nation that…

— David Horowitz

“I am passionately interested in how my Country works, and if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America,…

— Ken Burns

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

— Ben Stiller

“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed intimates of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s sacred curtain…

— Robert A. Caro

“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery; history would…

— Cynthia Bass

“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and I could…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the story of…

— Howard Zinn

“This was supposedly an Honors American History class, for seniors only. What deep, dark secrets of American History needed to be kept from younger…

— Melodie Starkey

“The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation…

— George Saunders

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson”

— Tim Grove

“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to…

— Mitch Landrieu