"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism."
-Stephen Ambrose
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"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.“
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"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
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"Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life."
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"You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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