#american history

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. ↗

— Frank Waters

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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. ↗

— James McGreevey

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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. ↗

— Scott Ritter

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Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

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By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. ↗

— Harold Washington

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