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When Rights Went Right

Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute?
by David Cole via New York Review of Books on March 31, 2022
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Borders Don’t Stop Violence—They Create It

The “border” is not a line on the ground, but a tool that enables violence and surveillance.
by Karl Jacoby, Monica Muñoz Martinez via Public Books on July 7, 2021
John C. Calhoun

American Heretic, American Burke

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.
by Allen C. Guelzo via The New Criterion on February 4, 2021

Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on November 4, 2018

Is the American Idea Doomed?

Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on October 18, 2017

The History Behind the Movement to Replace Columbus Day

Though the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day was celebrated in the early 1990s, the idea took shape many years earlier.
by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on October 6, 2017

Colin Kaepernick: Historical Perspectives

Throughout history, one would be hard-pressed to find an example of black protest that most white people found acceptable at the time.
by Erin Burin via North Dakota Perspectives on October 4, 2017
Painting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin while writing the Declaration of Independence.

How the Complete Meaning of July Fourth Is Slipping Away

John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.
by Gordon S. Wood via The New Republic on July 4, 2011
Caricature drawing of Charles Black

Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness

Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.
by Laurence H. Tribe via New York Review of Books on September 24, 1998
Texas Declaration of Independence

Texas Declaration of Independence

A spotlight on a primary source.
via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on March 2, 1836

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