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Category Archives: America
Michael Kammen and the Making of American Cultural History
Michael Gedaliah Kammen (October 25, 1936 – November 29, 2013) ranks among the central figures in late twentieth-century American historiography and counts as a founder of the modern study of American cultural history. Across a career of nearly half a … Continue reading
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Robert Dahl, from Pluralist Optimism to the Problem of Economic Power
Robert Alan Dahl (1915-2014) stands among the architects of modern political science and among the central figures in twentieth-century democratic theory. Across a career at Yale University that ran for more than six decades, he moved the study of democracy … Continue reading
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Try That in a Small Town
A man stands on the steps of the Maury County courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, and sings a warning. Behind him the building holds two centuries of the town’s law. In 1927 a mob took Henry Choate (accused a raping a … Continue reading
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Two Feet of Wall: The Hero System of Nicholas Dockery
He climbs onto the roof carrying colored smoke. Below him the alley holds two of his soldiers, one of them not breathing, and forty feet past the gate sit fighters who came out of a mosque that morning with rocket-propelled … Continue reading
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The Bridge and the Star
On the morning of April 2, 1972, a Marine captain went under a bridge and stayed there for about three hours while an army tried to kill him. John W. Ripley (1939-2008) was thirty-two. He served as senior advisor to … Continue reading
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The Last Man on the Ground
The claymores opened the ambush. Steel balls tore through the team. A round broke his leg. Shrapnel ripped his abdomen open. He kept the handset. He called fire onto the base camp he had spent four days finding, walked the … Continue reading
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The Hero System of Dr. Andrew Freese
In 2001 a three-year-old boy lay on a table in Philadelphia with his death already written. He had Canavan disease. The white matter of his brain was breaking down, and the genome that built him had set the term of … Continue reading
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The Witness Who Lived – Rachel Scott, Cassie Bernall, Valeen Schnurr, and the Hero Systems Built on a Single Yes
A month and a half before April, Rachel Joy Scott (1981-1999) stands on the stage of the Columbine High School auditorium and performs a mime to a recorded song called “Watch the Lamb.” The tape jams partway through. A boy … Continue reading
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The Disc Kept Level
He comes into the chamber on a walker. The uniform is full dress, the chest a grid of ribbon, the leg still healing under the trouser. His wife Amy stands beside him. The President speaks from the rostrum, the gallery … Continue reading
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An Agent of the United States
On the night of March 4, 2025, in the House chamber, a thirteen-year-old boy in a dark suit sat in the gallery beside his father and did not yet know what the room knew. Donald Trump (b. 1946) had been … Continue reading
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