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Why Our Country Is Too Big Not to Fail
Maybe the United States was doomed from the start. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau can explain why.
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Matthew Sitman
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The New Republic
on
December 6, 2022
We Have Always Been Global: Tribal Nations in the Democratic Slide
In the 19th century, Native American nations were early pioneers in constitutional democracy.
by
Noah Ramage
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Perspectives on History
on
June 21, 2022
Challenging Exceptionalism
The 1876 presidential election, Potter Committee, and European perceptions.
by
Niels Eichhorn
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Muster
on
February 22, 2022
An Ugly Preeminence
On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.
by
Ian Tyrrell
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
January 26, 2022
The Comforts of a Single State
Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.
by
Jan Ellen Lewis
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
November 22, 2021
As Far From Heaven as Possible
How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.
by
Ed Simon
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 4, 2021
A Story of Use and Abuse
Athenian democracy in the political imagination.
by
Arlene W. Saxonhouse
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 28, 2021
The Incoherence of American History
We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.
by
Osita Nwanevu
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The New Republic
on
August 11, 2021
Feb 6 1934/Jan 6 2021
What do the two events really have in common?
by
John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
on
July 15, 2021
The Revolutionary Language and Behavior of the Whiskey Rebels
On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.
by
Kyler Burd
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Journal of the American Revolution
on
December 10, 2020
‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument
Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.
by
George Thomas
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The Atlantic
on
November 2, 2020
When Kids Ran the World: A Forgotten History of the Junior Republic Movement
When public opinion favored sheltering youth from adult society, the Freeville Republic immersed them in carefully designed models of that society instead.
by
Jennifer S. Light
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The MIT Press Reader
on
October 9, 2020
A Brief History of Circuit Riding
The study of circuit riding helps to highlight the importance of the lower federal courts in American legal history.
by
Jake Kobrick
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Federal Judicial Center
on
October 8, 2020
partner
Holding an Election During the Civil War Set the Standard for Us Today
On-time elections are a key part of ensuring the promise of American democracy.
by
Jonathan W. White
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Made By History
on
October 5, 2020
partner
Historians Must Contextualize the Election for Voters
This information is crucial for getting the election right.
by
Joanne B. Freeman
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Made By History
on
February 24, 2020
The Framers’ Answers to Three Myths About Impeachment
Three misunderstood aspects of our governmental system, and the truth pulled directly from the Federalist Papers
by
Garry Wills
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New York Review of Books
on
December 3, 2019
partner
Why Americans Turn to Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories have been a central feature in American politics since before the Revolution.
by
Rachel Hope Cleves
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Made By History
on
October 21, 2019
Bitcoin Dreams
The pitfalls and the potential of cryptocurrency are explored in three recent publications.
by
Kevin Werbach
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 20, 2019
America Is Not Rome. It Just Thinks It Is
Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.
by
Tom Holland
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New York Review of Books
on
August 6, 2019
wE’rE a rEPuBLiC nOt A dEMoCRacY
A political usage guide for a feckless commentariat.
by
Ed Burmila
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The Baffler
on
May 6, 2019
On Ribbon and Revolution: Rethinking Cockades in the Atlantic
Examining the Age of Revolutions through one of its most familiar material markers.
by
Ashli White
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Age of Revolutions
on
March 25, 2019
AOC Thinks Billionaires Are a Threat to Democracy. So Did Our Founders.
The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.
by
Eric Levitz
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Intelligencer
on
January 24, 2019
A Love Letter to an Extinct Creature: The Liberal Republican
“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.
by
Benjamin C. Waterhouse
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Washington Post
on
November 21, 2018
What Did the Founders Mean by “Democracy”?
The main issue they were debating was how democratic a representative body should be. And their answer was “not very democratic at all.”
by
William Hogeland
via
William Hogeland blog
on
October 30, 2018
Rome's Heroes and America's Founding Fathers
Why the statesmen of the Roman Republic had such an influence on the patriots of the Revolutionary era.
by
Paul Meany
via
Journal of the American Revolution
on
October 23, 2018
Hamilton, Madison, and the Paradox at America’s Heart
The tension between nationalist ambitions and republican principles goes all the way back to our nation’s founding.
by
Jay Cost
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National Review
on
June 27, 2018
partner
Why George Washington Rejected a Military Parade in his Honor
Of all the precedents the first president set, this is one of his most overlooked — and most important.
by
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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Made By History
on
April 18, 2018
Yosemite and the Future of the National Park
The Trump administration is working to undo one of the guiding principles of U.S. conservation.
by
Tyler Green
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Places Journal
on
December 1, 2017
Technocratic Vistas: The Long Con of Neoliberalism
How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.
by
Jackson Lears
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
November 13, 2017
Trump’s Defense of Taking Foreign Money Is Historically Illiterate
The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.
by
Joshua Zeitz
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Politico Magazine
on
June 11, 2017
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