Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Michael B.A. Oldstone

Quote by Michael B.A. Oldstone

“By Amherst’s direction, hostile Indian tribes were provided with blankets contaminated with smallpox: “Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, use every stratagem in our power to reduce them” (14).”

Quote by Michael B.A. Oldstone

Book:Viruses, Plagues, and History
Create image

Work

Viruses, Plagues, and History

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Michael B.A. Oldstone

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Michael B.A. Oldstone. more

You May Also Like

“The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of continental isolation, village society, the Protestant denominations, and a flourishing industrial capitalism. But reluctantly, year by year, over several decades, it has been drawn into the twentieth century and forced to cope with its unpleasant realities: first the incursions of cosmopolitanism and skepticism, then the disappearance of American isolation and easy military security, the collapse of traditional capitalism and its supplementation by a centralized welfare state, finally the unrelenting costs and stringencies of the Second World War, the Korean War, and the cold war. As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and conservative in economics, has constantly rumbled with an underground revolt against all these tormenting manifestations of our modern predicament.”

PoliticsHistoryIntellectualIntellectualismPolitics Of The United StatesAnti IntellectualismUnited States History
Author:Richard Hofstadter
Create image

“We are told that in the course of this interview Stephens, seeing Lincoln not willing to grant the terms he asked, urged that even Charles I made certain concessions. To this...Lincoln answered: "I am not strong history; I depend mainly on Secretary Seward for that. All I remember of Charles is that he lost his head.”

InspirationalFunnyInterestingCleverCivil WarAmerican HistoryUnited States History
Book:The Story of the Americans
Create image

“We are told that in the course of this interview Stephens, seeing Lincoln not willing to grant the terms he asked, urged that even Charles I made certain concessions. To this...Lincoln answered: "I am not strong on history; I depend mainly on Secretary Seward for that. All I remember of Charles is that he lost his head.”

InspirationalFunnyInterestingCleverCivil WarAmerican HistoryUnited States History
Book:The Story of the Americans
Create image

“After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman said after hanging up. "Harry's such a wonderful man... I knew he'd call.")”

HumorPresidencyHarry TrumanUnited States History
Book:The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
Create image

“Our national problem has not been ignoring the Civil War, but turning it into a kind of theme park in which nostalgia and mendacity have eclipsed the raw and unpleasant truth that one army fought, and lost, a battle for the liberty to enslave other human beings, while the other, full of imperfect men fighting for a variety of motives, secured the emancipation of those human beings and thereby preserved a political experiment underwritten by the idea of equality.”

Civil War History
Book:Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Create image