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“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.” -Elvis in 1956, talking about…

Footnote Page: Elvis Presley · 11 Dec 2008 You

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of…

Footnote Page: Martin Luther King Jr. · 11 Dec 2008 You

“A date which will live in infamy”—Franklin D. Roosevelt

Footnote Page: Attack on Pearl Harbor · 11 Dec 2008 You

“We came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them.” —Orville Wright, about Kitty Hawk

Footnote Page: Wright Brothers Fly Plane at Kitty Hawk, NC · 11 Dec 2008 You

"Korea is the Greece of the Far East. If we are tough enough now, if we stand up to them like we did in Greece three years ago, they won't take any next steps…There's no telling…

Footnote Page: Korean War · 11 Dec 2008 You

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not…

Footnote Page: Lincoln-Douglas Debates · 11 Dec 2008 You

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. --Richard Nixon, New York Times, March 28, 1985

Footnote Page: Vietnam War · 11 Dec 2008 You

Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Wait a minute. I tell ya! You ain’t heard nothin’!—Jack Robin, First words spoken in the motion picture

Footnote Page: The Jazz Singer · 11 Dec 2008 You

"And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans,…

Footnote Page: The Great Depression · 11 Dec 2008 You

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” —President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Footnote Page: FDR's New Deal for America · 11 Dec 2008 You

“Nunna daul Isunyi”—Cherokee for “the Trail Where They Cried”

Footnote Page: The Cherokee Trail of Tears · 11 Dec 2008 You

"Cupidity has fastened its eye upon our lands and our homes and is seeking by force and by every variety of oppression and wrong to expel us from our lands and our homes and to…

Footnote Page: The Cherokee Trail of Tears · 11 Dec 2008 You

We are the free born sons of America. The citizens of the only republic now existing in the world. And the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which…

Footnote Page: The War of 1812 · 11 Dec 2008 You

“Remember the “Maine”, To hell with Spain!” —battle cry for the Spanish-American War

Footnote Page: Spanish-American War · 11 Dec 2008 You

I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefiting his…

Footnote Page: The Homestead Act, 1862 · 10 Dec 2008 You

“If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this…

Footnote Page: Watergate Scandal & Investigation · 10 Dec 2008 You

“You still think it’s beautiful to die for your country. The first bombardment taught us better. When it comes to dying for country, it’s better not to die at…

Footnote Page: World War I · 09 Dec 2008 You

“We’re cookin!”—Manhattan Project Team

Footnote Page: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki · 09 Dec 2008 You

“The greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time. Today, John Fitzgerald Kennedy lives on in the immortal words and works that he left…

Footnote Page: U.S. President John F. Kennedy Assassinated · 09 Dec 2008 You

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." —Robert F. Kennedy, his last speech, June 5, 1968

Footnote Page: Robert Kennedy · 09 Dec 2008 You