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THE BEACON OF DEMOCRACY GOES DARK
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
8 min |
November 2025
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WHOSE INDEPENDENCE?
The question of what Jefferson meant by \"all men\" has defined American law and politics for too long.
10+ min |
November 2025
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WE HOLD THESE TURKEYS TO BE DELICIOUS
When John Adams arrived in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress, he immediately went out to eat.
5 min |
November 2025
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AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS NAP
How “Rip Van Winkle” became our founding folktale
10+ min |
November 2025
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THE MANY LIVES OF ELIZA SCHUYLER
She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.
10+ min |
November 2025
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THE MORAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It's worth preserving.
5 min |
November 2025
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THE NIGHTMARE OF DESPOTISM
Hamilton feared the mob. Jefferson warned against unchecked elites. But both thought that the republic could fall.
10+ min |
November 2025
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THE 27TH GRIEVANCE
How Native nations shaped the Revolution
9 min |
November 2025
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LINCOLN'S REVOLUTION
How he used America's past to rescue its future
10 min |
November 2025
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DEAR SON
How the revolution tore apart the Franklin family
10+ min |
November 2025
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THE BLACK LOYALISTS
Thousands of African Americans fought for the British-then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.
10+ min |
November 2025
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INTO THE BREECHES
Το hat it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor
10+ min |
November 2025
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THE RISING
The country needs a mass social movement— now—to save itself from autocracy.
10+ min |
November 2025
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AMERICA Needs PATRIOTISM
The experiment only works if people believe in it.
10+ min |
November 2025
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JUST HOW REAL SHOULD COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG BE?
Telling the full story of the town's past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
NO ONE GAVE A SPEECH LIKE PATRICK HENRY
How he roused a nation to war
10+ min |
November 2025
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How Do You Film the Revolution?
What we learned making a documentary about a war so distant in time
10+ min |
November 2025
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WHY CONCORD?
The geological origins of the American Revolution
10+ min |
November 2025
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WHAT THE FOUNDERS WOULD SAY NO W
They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.
10+ min |
November 2025
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THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
\"A magazine, when properly conducted, is the nursery of genius; and by constantly accumulating new matter, becomes a kind of market for wit and utility.\"
4 min |
November 2025
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SECRETS OF A RADICAL DUKE
How a lost copy of the Declaration unlocked a historical mystery
10+ min |
November 2025
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THE MYTH OF MAD KING GEORGE
He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
Songs of Herself
How did Taylor Swift convince the world that she's relatable?
10+ min |
October 2025
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Culture Critics
On July 5, a couple of days after I saw Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Black Sabbath played its final show, at Villa Park, in Birmingham, England.
5 min |
October 2025
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THE NEIGHBOR FROM HELL
Israel and the United States delivered a blow to Iran. But it could come back stronger.
10+ min |
October 2025
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Whither the Dictionary?
These are parlous times for lexicographers.
8 min |
October 2025
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THE GREATEST FIGHT OF ALL TIME
It was oven-hot inside the arena, and that was before the fight began.
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
John Cheever's Secrets
In a new memoir, Susan Cheever searches for the wellspring of her father's genius.
10 min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
The Ghost of Lady Murasaki
A thousand years ago, she wrote The Tale of Genji, a story of sex and intrigue in Japan's imperial court. I went to Kyoto to find her.
10+ min |
October 2025
The Atlantic
The Invention of Judd Apatow
How a kid from Long Island willed his way to the top of American comedy
10+ min |