The United States came out of the Revolutionary War victorious. But building a new nation was very different from fighting a war.
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Matthias Aspden was a wealthy Philadelphia businessman who remained faithful to Britain. As a result, he lost his home, property and sense of belonging, and died in exile.
The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence.
Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering divisions inside the United States.
What might appear to be common values about shared political and cultural identities can at times serve not as a bridge joining people together but a wedge driving them apart.
Brexit has reopened an old battle over Northern Irish identity, leading to clashes in the street. Scores have been injured in the troubled UK territory’s worst outbreak of violence in decades.
Like today’s Western women who joined ISIS and now want to return home, American women with British sympathies during the Revolution left the country – but many tried to bring their families back.
Twenty years since the Good Friday Agreement, it remains easier to rely on old animosities than lead people towards peace.
Why are there so few films about Northern Ireland’s unionists?
Donald Trump’s base appears to remain loyal to him, even though he has so far failed to deliver on any of their key concerns.
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