You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

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

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

History is everything that has ever happened.