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Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

~Cybill Shepherd

Topics: American American History Been Friend Gore Greatest He History Mine Writers Years

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I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: About American American History Bit Feet Front History Knocked Naive Newspaper Newspapers Off Pages Reading Taken Things Used 1930S

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Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

~Dannel Malloy

Topics: About American American History Discrimination Front History Laws Magazines Newspapers Our Pages Read Should Something Today

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When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

~Dave Foley

Topics: American American History Books Canadian History History Books Learned Our School Were

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If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

~David Christian

Topics: Also American American History Australian Beings Chinese Divided Failing History Human Human Beings Keep Kids Need Problems Russian Schools Share Teach Teaching Them Together Tribes Work Work Together

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Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.

~David Garrow

Topics: American American History Biography Choose Earlier History Life Major Major Part Once Part President Run States Succeed United United States You Your

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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.

~David Zabel

Topics: American American History Civil Civil War Difficult Dramatic Event Find History More Speaking Than War Would Writer

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Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: American American History Barack Barack Obama Generation History Most Obama Perhaps President

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American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: American American History Democratic Heroes History Republican Story

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African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

~Don Lemon

Topics: African African American African Americans American American History Because Build Country Helped History Really

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