During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Man, them white folks oughta catch you and send you to a zoo and keep you for the next war!"

“嗨，白人会把你像动物一样抓走,以备下一次作战之用，！“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The White House is urging WikiLeaks not to not publish any more classified documents about the Afghan war.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

And then Woodward argued quite directly that the loss of the Vietnam War began to liberate the South, in a sense that the South, Southerners, white Southerners, were the only Americans other than we always forget Native Americans who had ever lost a war.

接着沃德沃直截了当地说,越南战争的损失开始导致南方的解放,因为从某种程度上说,南方人,南方白种人,是美国唯一除了印第安人之外,我们总忽略这些北美原住民,输掉过战争的人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The garden will be the first on the White House lawn since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

An allied warship rescued Bourke-White and the other survivors from reporting on the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

For six weeks, Bourke-White took pictures of the Soviet people preparing for war.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

"As for when this comprehensive debate about clear objectives in Afghanistan will take place, the lawmakers who made the appeal to the president point to the 2010 defense appropriations bill Congress will consider, and a new $75 billion war supplemental measure the White House will send to Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17