American Insights
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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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...
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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...
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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...
A mop isn’t enough
Prominent contributors to the income and well-being of this city have incurred massive infrastructural damage to their home due to the city’s lack of...
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James Otis’s Fight
In February 1761, almost four months after George III’s ascension, the first major controversy surrounding imperial policy gripped Boston politics. That month,...
Shattering a mosaic
A couple years back, I met someone who told me if I ever had a good idea, to please reach out. So, at the...
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The Purpose of Government
On Tuesday, March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson delivered his first inaugural address. The day “dawned cloudy,” Irwin Hoover recalled, “but the...
This’ll warm you right up
On the frigid morning of Tuesday, January 16 at 9 a.m. while the temperature was in the single digits and the windchill was subzero,...