American history Quote by Sarah Vowell

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

— Anonymous

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

— Barbara Holland

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…America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

— Ashton Sanders

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

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak…

— Anonymous

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

— John F. Kennedy

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

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 only history that matters is the history we know.

— Ezra Pound

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

— Luiz Bolognesi