Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.
History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.
To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents.
'America's Dad' is what we called Bill Cosby. And we called him that because, well, what a revolutionary way to put it. Through him, we were thumbing our noses at the long, dreary history for black men in America by elevating this one to a paternal Olympus. In the 1980s, he made the black American family seem 'just like us.'
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Black history is American history.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.
Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.
