I try to make sure people have an understanding of history.

I wonder if Tiger Woods knows that every time he tees up his golf ball, he is putting it on something that was invented by a black man.

I've been doing this for 45 years and I'm still amazed at what I find out.

It's a taste of history. Food is very important to understanding history. It really tells you about people and about their background.

People are living here, working here, raising the kids in the community -- there's more understanding of our history. People living here are more uncomfortable revealing aspects of our criminal history than not. They're as interested in the crime fighting.

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history. . . . The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years. . . . There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation [between church and state]. . . . The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or the intent of the framers.