Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
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In the US, presidents can serve a maximum of two terms or eight years. Should a limit be placed on political leaders here?
Coral has been incorporated into traditions, art and even religion in communities around the world.
Florida’s new standards for teaching social studies include throwbacks to an interpretation of slavery as benign or inconsequential.
When America was young, its leaders had no trouble retiring from public service and public life. That’s not universally true now.
Hint: It’s all tied up with the country’s history with British royalty.
Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.
While some Republicans want to put Donald Trump onto Mt. Rushmore, historians often change their views of presidents over time.
Americans are not the first to fret over the potential harm that parties can inflict. But parties can also promote the common interest.
He was an important philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of his time. But Richard Price was subsequently written out of history.
Known as the military leader who saved America, Ulysses S. Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil War.
The Unfolding is fiction: a made-up story of American politics. But just like in the real United States, the lines between truth and fantasy in this novel are perilously thin.
The celebration of generous portions, meat and fat as masculine and patriotic would have been alien to Washington and Jefferson, who advocated vegetables and moderation as American ideals.
The balance of US political power is at stake in the 2022 midterm elections. Voters have several ways to cast their ballots – and the majority of Americans are choosing one of them.
There’s a new party in town – but it may not last long.
Once owned by James Madison, the Montpelier plantation remains a model for presenting a full depiction of the life of the former president as well as the lives of those he enslaved.
A leader’s machismo can lead to war, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has long displayed his version of hyper-masculinity. A historian says that for America’s founders, wars never fed their egos.
Like today, passions were strong and political discourse was inflamed in late 18th-century America. Angry mobs torched buildings. Virginians drank a toast to George Washington’s speedy death.
Donald Trump’s lawsuit to stop the release to Congress of potentially embarrassing or incriminating documents puts the National Archives in the middle of an old legal conflict.
The Founding Fathers were unrelenting in their commitment to the idea that circumstances can arise that require public officials to take actions abridging individual freedoms.
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