To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

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.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

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