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

Frank Waters

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Hilary Mantel

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

Liane Moriarty

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Wilfred Owen

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

Jim Leach