In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

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

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

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

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