The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

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

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

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

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