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American history begins with the first Americans. But where do their stories start? Native Americans passed stories down through the millen-nia that tell of their creation and reveal the contours of indigenous belief. The Salinan people of present-day California, for example, tell of a bald
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“General Jackson is the slave of the majority: he yields to its wishes, its propensities, and its demands; say rather, that he anticipates and forestalls them,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. But the ever observant de Tocqueville knew all too well that Jackson was far from a humble servant of the people. So he continued: “Gene...
We organize the patterns and lessons of our analysis into three categories of emergence of dem-agogues, response of established parties, and the concerns for demagogues in the Revolutionary Era and the Early Republic.
Bernhardt, Krasa and Shadmehr (2019) provide theoretical foundations for the historical pat-terns and lessons that we draw. Within an infinite horizon framework, they study the tension between guarding the long-run interests of voters and catering to their short-run desires by far-sighted, benevolent parties who are challenged by o ce-seeking demag...
It includes, first, an overview of the politics of U.S. social policy making from the nineteenth century to the present, and then a set of reflections on the lessons we might take from political history about constraints and possibilities at work in contemporary debates about so- cial policies for the future.
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Jan 7, 2016 · This text breaks American history into typical chronological and thematic chapters. There are also consistent themes emphasized throughout the chapters, such as women's history, Black history, and Mexican-American history. read more
questions reveals far greater insights into our history. But how can any textbook encapsulate American history? Should it organize around certain themes or surrender to the impossibility of syn-thesis and retreat toward generality? In the oft-cited lines of the Ameri-can poet Walt Whitman, we found as good an organizing principle as any
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4 days ago · When completed, the Teaching American History documents collection will be a comprehensive and authoritative account of America’s story, told in the words of those who wrote it—America’s presidents, labor leaders, farmers, philosophers, industrialists, politicians, workers, explorers, religious leaders, judges, soldiers; its slaveholders ...
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Loyalists and Patriots. The Revolutionary War era was a time of immense turmoil for the American colonists, no matter where their allegiances lay. By comparing and contrasting these two artworks, we can examine both sides of the dispute over independence and how the issue directly affected the lives of those involved.
