63. “I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can’t affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.”― Roberto...
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. —Isabel Wilkers...
He wants Max to explain to him the bafflement and confusion he feels about his existence. Wright Richard Book traversal links forNative Son Chapters Richard Wright Up Essay Q&A Facebook share Twitter WhatsApp Top Novelguides Thomas Jefferson: the Man, the Myth, and the Morality JFK: His ...
Learn who Samuel Adams was. Explore Samuel Adams' role in the American Revolution, how he was involved in the Boston Tea Party, and Samuel Adams'...
We must, so far as we can, reconstruct the actual history of mankind, before we can hope to discover the laws underlying that history. — Franz Boas The Jesup North Pacific Expedition: Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History (1898), Vol. 1, 4. ...
All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes. — Theodore Roosevelt In 'My Life as a Naturalist', American Museum Journal (May 1918), ...
Henry David Thoreau was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet. He is one of the prominent figures of Transcendentalism in the 19th century. Throughout his life, Thoreau wrote volumes of books, poems, articles, and essays, which have lasting contributions to philosophy and natural history....
“Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.” Oscar Handlin “We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”...
as they are wholly unconnected with the history of the human race, are passed over in silence by the sacred historian, whose only concern with them was largely to state, that the matter of the universe is not eternal and self-existent but was originally created by the power of the Almighty...
But she also said the people she has met across the country “will help you in a heartbeat if you are in trouble” — and they make her proud to be American. “We are not so different from our neighbors. When a house is on fire, we do not ask about the homeowner's ra...