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Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did ...
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The word deadline has a dark origin, the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s website says, dating back to prisons in the U.S. Civil ...
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...
Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson. He notes that Jefferson's life and ...
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I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...