Cold Quote by Oliver Stone

“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers,…

— Martin Gardner

Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who…

— Henry Grunwald

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the…

— Robert Scheer

The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.

— Van Jones

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

— Sherman Alexie

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

— Hideo Kojima

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the…

— Noam Chomsky

I think George H. W. Bush, who I had lots of disagreements with, remarkably managed the end of the Cold War in a way…

— Ivo Daalder

I love history but was taught badly at school.

— Cathy Newman

Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the…

— James W. Loewen

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds…

— Adrienne Rich

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

— George W. Bush