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Daniel Webster
November 15, 2022
David Marques
We Fought Over American National Identity During the Antebellum Period. The Fight Should Be Ongoing.
A new work of history finds the best antidote to today’s authoritarian politics in Daniel Webster’s nineteenth-century civic nationalism.
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John McWhorter
Nice Speech, But We Won't Be Coming Together
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