I've Always Tried To Be

Immigrants Do More Than Help Us Win Our Wars, Or Set Up Cleaning Shops Or Ethnic Restaurants.

World War Ii, The Atomic Bomb, The Cold War, Made It Hard For Americans To Continue Their Optimism.

It Is Through History That We Learn Who We Are And How We Got That Way, Why And How We Changed, Why The Good Sometimes Prevailed And Sometimes Did Not.

In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries You Have These Great Nation States Hurling Their Young Men At One Another. The Victory Was Really Going To Rest On Who Could Do The Best Job Of Bringing Up Their Kids To Become Efficient And Effective Soldiers. That's Pretty Grandiose, I Guess, But I Do Think That, And Thank God It's Been The Armies Of Democracy That Have Emerged From This As The Triumphant Armies.

To Be A Slaveholder Meant One Had To Regard The African American As Inferior In Every Way.