American history Quote by John Edgar Wideman

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

— Ashton Kutcher

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that,…

— Larry McMurtry

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

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

— Anonymous

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

— JJ Feild

Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as ours. But…

— Michael Portillo

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

— John F. Kennedy

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

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

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any…

— Robert K. Massie

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

— Barbara Holland

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig