The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book
The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, Dreams From Our Founding Fathers, reveals a distinct vision of American history and how it should influence the present.
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Octavio Jones / Getty; The Atlantic Rethinking the European Conquest of Native Americans
In a new book by Pekka Hämäläinen, a picture emerges of a four-century-long struggle for primacy among Native power centers in North America.
Library of Congress The Fourth of July Has Always Been Political
The question is which vision of America it’s being used to advance.
The Illustrated London News / Library of Congress The Revival of John Quincy Adams
The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.
How the Constitution Was Indeed Pro-Slavery
Unlike Sean Wilentz suggests in The New York Times, the Constitution was not originally anti-slavery.
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