24 Quotes About History-of-the-united-states

These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.

Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that’s many fathoms deep. If I’m not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

History is entertainment for the wise and a confirmation for the doomed.

Perhaps the worst thing about ideological thinking is that it implies a structure in and behind events, a history that is reiterative, with variations that cannot ultimately change the course of things and are therefore always trivial, no matter how much thought and labor goes into the making of them.

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

If there is anything bigger than the state of Texas, it is the Pacific Ocean. --Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries because they are regenerated across the generations.

The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.