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A User's Guide to History

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Biography of the Constitution
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Be fruitful and multiply
Suggestion or command?
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Security guarantees
Or not
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7. Loose ends from the convention
Biography of the Constitution
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Annals of populism: Donald Trump
The 84 years between the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 constituted the longest hiatus from populism in…
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America was a great country before it became a great power
What John Quincy Adams knew
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A republic of neurons
“I contain multitudes,” wrote Walt Whitman.
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6. Creating the courts
When the delegates at Philadelphia thought about establishing federal courts, their first criterion was that the courts be independent of the…
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A User's Guide to History
Everybody uses history, some better than others. This User's Guide offers suggestions on how the past shapes the present, and how the present shapes what we think about the past.

A User's Guide to History

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