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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
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
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
1892 Populist Party presidential campaign button.
“Party Like It’s 1892!”
Saxonburg Memorial Church.
Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?
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!
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
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
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.
A Vanishing American Remembrance?
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