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Democrats are seizing the mantle of states’ rights to oppose the agenda of President Donald Trump, who has sought to reset Washington’s relationship with the states.
At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it ...
Gordon Wood’s argument for the “radicalism” of the Revolution reveals something profound — and hopeful — about America.
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The Second Continental Congress produced the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, and its legacy can be seen in the ...
Montesquieu shaped how Americans understood liberty, and his warning about a ‘tyranny of opinion’ speaks to today’s ...
In an American more divided than ever, can the flag still unite or is it a symbol of the partisanship that has come to define ...
Two revolutions, two republics and the enduring power of national myths and civic festivities come to the fore in July as ...