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A new, single volume of history sets out to explore the experiment in government that is the United States. Award-winning Harvard historian Jill Lepore,…
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Kevin R. C. Gutzman is the New York Times best-selling author of five books, including his latest, Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to…
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Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers? who fought for liberty and justice for all ? were slave owners?Through the powerful stories of five…
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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind—a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise, yet dedicated himself to politics and…
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By now, it’s pretty likely you’ve heard or read something about a little musical about a "ten-dollar Founding Father without a father" played or…
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Juan Williams is a top political analyst for Fox News Channel and will be with us this morning to discuss his new book, We the People: The Modern-Day…
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In the summer of 1804, two of America's most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. That two such men would…
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When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the…
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Former 2nd Lady of the United States, Lynne Cheney, has spent decades studying the nation's fourth president, James Madison. The result of that labor is…
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Across four decades of public life, from 1776 until he left the presidency in 1817, James Madison made extraordinary contributions to the American…