American Insights
Lincoln’s Lyceum Address
Abraham Lincoln was not yet 29 years-old when he stood before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, on Saturday, January 27,...
Good ol’ girl network?
I see buried in the political mentionings of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Our High Priestess in Charge has appointed the wife of a known...
Stamp Act?
Have you seen the Notice of Jury Summons letter for the county? What I find strange is the envelope that they send with the...
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The Mighty Endeavor
On Wednesday, June 5, 1944, the president spoke to the American people through a common and comforting medium, the fireside chat. “Yesterday,”...
No need to feel ‘ambient’ about starvation in Gaza
Naomi Klein wrote a recent column in The Guardian about a protest speech at the Academy Awards by Jonathan Glazer, who was accepting the...
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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...
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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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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...
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The Lessons of The Federalist
On Saturday, October 27, 1787, the first of eighty-five essays under the pseudonym “Publius” appeared in the New York Independent...