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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break up said experiments is: Sex, all that murky, dark, dirty gunk simmering beneath human relations.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times throughout my life. People say, "You read the dictionary?" I say, "Yes, and you can really believe it.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

the better angels of our nature

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him a slave, but he was a man nonetheless.

A Conspiracy Theory that took hold was introduced by Anthony “Tony” Summers, the respected author of The Kennedy Conspiracy, published in 1980 and again in 1998 as “Not in Your Lifetime.” He believes that anti-Castro activists, funded by Mafia mobsters who had been ousted from Cuba, killed Kennedy. Summers believes that members of the CIA took part in this conspiracy and named the people he suspected. Summers also stated in an article published in the National Enquirer magazine, on October 25, 2013, that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone. The National Enquirer stated that Herminio Diaz, born in Cuba in 1923, had, in 1948, shot Pipi Hernandez, who was a Dominican exile employed at the naval base at Guantanamo. This killing took place at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico. In 1957, he was involved with an assassination attempt against President José Figueres of Costa Rica, who incidentally was a trained Army Ranger and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. According to JFKFacts published on May 27, 2014, General Fabián Escalante, the historian of Cuban State Security and Castro’s former bodyguard, said that the assassin Herminio Diaz, along with Eladio del Valle and three American mobsters: Richard Gaines, Lenny Patrick, and Dave Yara, were the shooters at Dealey Plaza.

A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: a weight it can't quite let go of, a lingering sadness. And though we don't often think of the United States in these terms, this melancholy is as much a part of our history as our triumphs.

Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.

All of these things about America—the independent spirit; freedom and liberty to think, express, and act; the promise of the potential for prosperity—have all been delivered to American citizens by our Founders and Framers, and secured by American soldiers, sailors, and airmen.

A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Instead, the FHA adopted a racial policy that could well have been culled from the Nuremberg laws.