Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
History is everything that has ever happened.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.