I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

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

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

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

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

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.