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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?
STS-116 mission specialists, NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang perform extravehicular activity (EVA) during construction of the International Space Station.
Facing Opportunities and Obstacles in Space
First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room.
The Distant Horizon of a President
This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.
Tea Parties Then and Now — A Crucial Difference
Reagan in 1982.
Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?
Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.
Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power
members of the Tea Party holding signs
The Great American Debate Recommences
Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.
Choking Off Our Past
Obama wore Isabel Toledo clothes made of St. Gallen Embroidery to the 2009 presidential inauguration.
Is Michelle Obama the Ultimate Insider?
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
An insurance form with pills.
“Hands off My Medicare”: The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance
Jaycee Dugard was found in August, 2009 18 years after her abduction. While most child abductions by strangers do not end so well, historian Paula Fass points out that stranger abductions comprise only a small percentage of child kidnapping cases even though they receive the lion's share of media attention. Fear over stranger abductions has grown in the United States since the 19th century, and often results more from general fears about society than the actual safety of individual children.
Child Kidnapping in America