Americans are driven by many forces, and chief among those forces—and thus a formative element in the country’s soul—is the pursuit of happiness of which Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independ...
White men alone must manage the South, Johnson remarked in 1865. Two years later, in 1867, the president asserted that blacks were incapable of self-government. No independent government of any form h...
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of oth...
The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: one of the choice ones of the earth.
William L. Shirer, who had covered Nazi Germany, wrote on returning home. I had seen these poisons grow into ugly witch hunting and worse in the totalitarian lands abroad, but I was not prepared to fi...
Writing in 1903, the scholar, historian, and activist W.E.B. Du Bois observed that the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line, and, while Du Bois was surely right, it is cor...
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