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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.