Author: Sarah Vowell

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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

- Sarah Vowell

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

- Sarah Vowell

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

- Sarah Vowell

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

- Sarah Vowell

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

- Sarah Vowell

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