Douglas Brinkley War Quotations

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.