American history Quote by Melodie Starkey

“While you were learning about Lincoln and Washington, I was learning about Jack the Ripper, Albert Fish, Ed Gein, the Zodiac. Those were just…

— Ethan Cross

“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what did she…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Our history, America’s history, has been so heavily edited. In history classes, we don’t really go into full discussions about the past. People, struggles,…

— Janelle Gray

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . . a daughter…

— Kiera Cass

“It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent…

— Eric Foner

“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

“Our history teacher had the most boring voice in the world and no teaching skils to speak of. Every single class, he read aloud…

— Claire Farrell

“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." ( The Course of Human Events , NEH Jefferson Lecture…

— David McCullough

“You have just said that we should remember the clear lessons of history,' said Bob Johnson. 'What are these?' 'You remember what Bismarch once…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

“We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham