Quotes of: American-history Keyword

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

A History of the American People

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.

Bill Maher

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-America...

Ami Bera

One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.

Bleed, Blister, and Purge: A History of Medicine on the American Frontier

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next ,a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participan...

Tony Judt

Lamont: Just remember, in here, you the nigga. Not me.

American History X

Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eage...

Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Harold Rosenberg

Doris Vinyard: I'm ashamed that you came out of my body.

American History X

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A Novel

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality that comes from the bedrock of lore from w...

The American Storybag

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Culture is always on the move.

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about that? Wow, what fun!” Yes, it was fun, but it was also serious history. Pretty women do not fit into wh...

The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated ...

Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers

I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

Ed Gillespie

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Alan Greenspan