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

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

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

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

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.

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