Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrosewas an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 January 1936
CityLovington, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
beach wall military
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
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In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
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My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
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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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History is everything that has ever happened.
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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.