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Fox News commentator and Tea Party favorite Glenn Beck addresses supporters at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2010.
American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style
Demonstrators in steadily falling snow outside of the Wisconsin Capitol building.
Wisconsin: A History of Leading the Nation for Better or Worse
Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.
The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle
Vegetables from ecological farming.
Bringing Democrats and Republicans Together over Food
A young man stays connected on his cell phone as he strolls by a store advertising the Beatles' music on Apple's online store.
Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.
Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States.
Zealous Moderates: Barack Obama and William Howard Taft
Taxation without Representation, Suffrage Collection.
Death, Taxes, and the American Founders
John Quincy Adams.
WikiLeaks Reveals a Professionalism of Recent Vintage in the History of American Diplomacy
"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.
The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery
1892 Populist Party presidential campaign button.
“Party Like It’s 1892!”
A soldier stands guard at the U.S.-Mexican border in 1916.
The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy
Family members of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble attending his Medal of Honor ceremony.
Honoring Native American Veterans This Veterans Day
Saxonburg Memorial Church.
Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?
Richesons Church in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
The Separation of Church and State Is Rooted in American Christianity
Lady Liberty, wearing a cape labeled "Votes for Women," stands astride the states (colored white) that had adopted suffrage. A poem by Alice Duer Miller is printed beneath.
Smile, You’re a Liberal After All!
President Obama signing the new student loan legislation in March 2010.
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Final Vote.
True Bipartisanship Is Not Love and Kisses
Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.
How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice
Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).
Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur
Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy meeting with Kagan.
What’s Wrong With Kagan’s Confirmation Hearings
President Obama and McChrystal in the Oval Office in May 2009.
The Presidents and the McGenerals
President George W. Bush signs "No Child Left Behind" into law in 2002.
Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.
A Vanishing American Remembrance?