Francis Parkman

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'