John

“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the southern landscape”
― Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

“We stood by and allowed what happened to the Great Plains a century ago, the destruction of one of the ecological wonders of the world. In modern America, we need to see this with clear eyes, and soberly, so that we understand well that the flyover country of our own time derives much of its forgettability from being a slate wiped almost clean of its original figures.”
― Dan Flores, American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

“Neutrality is a luxury of the comfortable; in these uncomfortable times, our students and our academic communities need more from us.”
― Kevin M. Gannon, Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”
― Michael J. Lansing, Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics