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A Royal Paine – The Dispatch
Accounts differ, but sometime between late November and the middle of December 1774, a terribly sick…
The Original Sin of Broadcast Regulation
There are two different free speech regimes in America. When it comes to print speech, whether…
Calming the New Radicalism – The Dispatch
Americans of all stripes are growing more radical. A universal cynicism about the status quo has led…
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…
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