Demonstrators display a call for Christian nationalism at the Jan. 6, 2021, ‘Stop the Steal’ rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol.
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The founders saw a need for government to intervene in markets.
Graduating cadets at West Point take their oaths to the Constitution and are commissioned as officers in the U.S. Army.
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Members of the military take an oath before service, but it’s to the Constitution, not a specific person. West Point professors explain how young officers learn the importance of their allegiance.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force One in Milwaukee in December 2023.
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Biden’s self-confidence has powered impressive achievements. But has it become too much of a good thing?
Under cover of night, Colonists boarded the ships, dumped the tea chests and sparked a revolution.
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An attack on private property angered Colonial leaders as much as the British public – but a strong reaction from Parliament hardened the positions of the opposing sides, making compromise impossible.
Voters in a county election, 1854.
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Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
When America was young, its leaders had no trouble retiring from public service and public life. That’s not universally true now.
The practice of putting images of only deceased or allegorical people on U.S. stamps dates back to 1847.
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Hint: It’s all tied up with the country’s history with British royalty.
‘Our machines have now been running for 70. or 80. years,’ an old Thomas Jefferson, right, wrote to an even older John Adams, left.
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Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, sits in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Historians consistently have given Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, their highest rating because of his leadership during the Civil War.
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Known as the military leader who saved America, Ulysses S. Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil War.
The Unfolding is fiction: a made-up story of American politics. But just like in the real United States, the lines between truth and fantasy in this novel are perilously thin.
Neither George Washington nor Thomas Jefferson would have approved of this bacon cheeseburger.
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The celebration of generous portions, meat and fat as masculine and patriotic would have been alien to Washington and Jefferson, who advocated vegetables and moderation as American ideals.
A voter fills out his ballot at an early voting location in Massachusetts.
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The balance of US political power is at stake in the 2022 midterm elections. Voters have several ways to cast their ballots – and the majority of Americans are choosing one of them.
Andrew Yang, losing candidate for president and New York City mayor, is one of the founders of the Forward Party.
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State