Stephen Ambrose

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

History is everything that has ever happened.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

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?