Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.