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This postcard depicts a recreation of the Arbella, the ship that carried John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans to present-day Massachusetts.

From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth

Review of As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon , by Daniel T. Rodgers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)

… 19th century, even as Americans shaped and re-shaped the meaning of the nation. In a particularly splendid chapter, …

Pearl Harbor

The Prairie Dog is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804.

Not American Enough? This Political Slur Has a Long History

Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand

The End of the World as We Know It?

Review of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

… war after war in the 1990s gave new and painful meaning to the phrase "ethnic cleansing"—but most recently …

Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia

View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.

A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan

Col C.B. Winders shooting a gun in the 1910s.

Reconstructing the Second Amendment

Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

Canada 150: Coming Home

… the extremes of income and regional inequality that have plagued the US and did so through a series of political …

The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia Book Cover

The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age

Review of The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)

Mr. Professor by Joan Carlsson, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0

Needed: A New Deal for Academics

Reframing the Debate on Human Rights in China

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

A New Deal Prescription for Gordon Gekko

"We the People" Inscription located on the facade of the National Constitution Center.

How Europe Might Learn from American Constitution-Making

September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War

Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.

Not Only Action but Accountability

Top Ten Contested Political Conventions

Drawing/wood engraving of the state capitol of Illinois at Springfield.

Can Illinois Again Lead by (Bad) Example?

President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.

Marking a Tragic Anniversary

Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton

Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House

Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' idealized 1900 depiction of (left to right) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson of the Committee of Five working on the Declaration.

Stealing the First Amendment from the People

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