Amid the tremendous challenges facing the United States at the moment, it's useful to recall the origination of the now-familiar holiday. Abraham Lincoln established it in the dark hours of the Civil …
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Why does the memory of John F. Kennedy exert such an enduring hold on the imaginations of so many Americans? There are, to be sure, numerous factors that conjoin memorably in our thinking of his …
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Host James Strock interviews preeminent American lawyer Michael Traynor on the state of the lawyer-statesman ideal. …
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The Great War of 1914-18—it became the First World War only in tragic retrospect—was the seminal event of the 20th century. Its after-effects reverberate in our day. One might argue that the 20th …
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http://youtu.be/Tj12WvQGvrU This brief silent film montage evokes a moment at the hinge of history... We know so much they could not know.... They knew so much we cannot know.... …
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