Add to ORKGOne standard story about America is rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Another story concerns America\u27s moment of reckoning after the Civil War, when it was possible to believe that the country would transcend its racist roots. Kermit Roosevelt III argues here that today, with the country increasingly riven along violent divides, we can find a path forward by shifting our benchmarks from the first story, which fostered the Confederacy, to the second. America doesn\u27t need to find a new usable past; it already has one: we don\u27t live in the Founders\u27 America-we live in Lincoln\u27
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The U.S. Constitution opens by proclaiming the sovereignty of all citizens: “We the People.” Robert ...
In the debates over Kansas’ statehood, the presidential campaigns of 1860, and their responses to So...
Released in 1915, when the Civil War still occupied a significant portion of the American populace\u...
One standard story about America is rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. ...
Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America is a dramatic look at li...
The United States as we know it today is the result of a long history of territorial acquisition. At...
This review summarizes the key thesis of the book, The Nation That Never Was, which argues for a res...
There are no Reconstruction re-enactors. And who would want to be? Reconstruction is the disappointi...
A Contentious Divide: The Limits of Nationalism in Antebellum America To understand the peculiarity,...
https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/abolitionism/4/thumbnail.jpgThe centrality of the ...
The eighty-ninth anniversary of the declaration of American independence from Britain, on July 4, 18...
Reconstructing the Big Apple Piecing together the new nation David Quigley\u27s book rests on thre...
The United States shares a number of basic traits with various British settler societies in the nonw...
The United States, according to sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, was the ‘first new nation&r...
In studying the United States\u27 Reconstruction, historians have long devoted their energies to exa...
The U.S. Constitution opens by proclaiming the sovereignty of all citizens: “We the People.” Robert ...
In the debates over Kansas’ statehood, the presidential campaigns of 1860, and their responses to So...
Released in 1915, when the Civil War still occupied a significant portion of the American populace\u...