American Quote by John Edgar Wideman

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped…

— James A. Baldwin

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

— Philip Roth

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families'…

— Adele Logan Alexander

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

— Anonymous

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

— Anonymous

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe,…

— Russell Baker

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

— Martin Luther

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 tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history…

— Kevin Starr

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt…

— Greta Gerwig

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

— Alfred de Vigny

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David