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The Making of a Moral Superpower
In April 1899, about a year after the start of the Spanish-American War, the former head of the…
Winning the Vote Out West
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered the famous “Declaration of Sentiments” to a crowd of…
The 19th-Century Influencer Who Invented Thanksgiving
A slice of feminism may not be what you expected with your Thanksgiving dinner, or with your…
How Slavery Divided American Churches
Abraham Lincoln understood the meaning of the American Civil War better than anyone in the United…
Inventing the American Ghost Story
When I was in college, the house across the street from mine was said to be haunted. I never entered…
America’s First Globalist – The Dispatch
“Indications are not wanting of an approaching change in the thoughts and policy of Americans as to…
We Need a National Spirit of Sacrifice
“When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen,” Gen. George Washington avowed to…
John Brown and the Question of Righteous Violence
You who build these altars nowTo sacrifice these children—You must not do it anymore.A scheme is not…
When the Latter-Day Saints Came Marching
Two weeks ago, a man rammed his truck into a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Grand Blanc, Michigan,…
The Second 1776 – The Dispatch
Four score and five years after the founding of the American republic, disunion and civil war…
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