American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
History is more interesting than most people think.
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History is more interesting than politics.
Black history is American history.
The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.
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