American Insights
The Tragedy of B. F. Randolph
On Wednesday, January 15, 1868, Benjamin Franklin Randolph opened the second day of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention with...
American Insights
Lincoln at Independence Hall
The president-elect reached Philadelphia at 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 21, 1861. In response to warm greetings, Abraham Lincoln told a...
American Insights
| The Radical Faith
Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, they knew, was not the end but the beginning of a...
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Rescuing the Experiment
As the snow fell at Mount Vernon in March 1785, George Washington was deeply concerned. Two years after the Treaty of Paris...
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The Right to Resist
Born at Cape Cod and educated at Harvard, the Reverend Samuel West was a patriot. But above all, he was a...