James A. Baldwin
Writer
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
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American History
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John F. Kennedy
Politician
"American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished."
Barack Obama
Politician
"At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate."
Fred Thompson
Politician
"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."
Rachel Martin
Journalist
"There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history."
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"To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land."
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"The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans."
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"Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'"
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"I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that."
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"It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history."
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"I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history."
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"So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history."
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