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01.18.2021 Nytimes.comAfter a lifetime of membership in exclusive clubs, President Trump is about to join one against his will. It is the club of one-term presidents. There is surely no dishonor in serving a single term in...
01.17.2021 Wfdd.org and 27 sites''Black Radical'' Traces The Life And Legacy Of Activist William Monroe TrotterDAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I''m Dave Davies in today for Terry Gross. The protests for racial justice that swe...
01.13.2021 Kpcw.org and 20 sitesPulitzer-prize winning historian David McCullough delivered this speech to the U. S. Capitol Historical Society in 2016, and it was subsequently collected in The American Spirit: Who We Are and What W...
01.17.2021 Thedailybeast.com"Democracy is a miracle considering human psychological disabilities. " Eli Sagan, The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America. It may or may not surprise some that Plato and many Greeks knew and believed a beneficent dictator, The Philosopher King , was preferred to "rule by the mob" — or democracy. The Founders and framers were no less suspicious of democracy. But all these superior minds were well aware that the Philosopher King was an ideal. An "oug...
01.17.2021 Dailykos.comAnalysis: it was Charles Curtis rather than Kamala Harris who was America''s first biracial vice-president By Joseph Hammond, Royal Holloway University of London This week, Kamala Harris will be sworn...
01.18.2021 Rte.ieGeorge Washington, the country''s first president, won both of his elections unanimously, with every elector casting their vote for him. That''s a far cry from today''s bitterly contested battles. Pre...
01.14.2021 Newsweek.comFor any millennial out there who still feels young at heart, Zac Hanson is here to ruin all of that. The 35-year-old, and youngest member of the Hanson family band, has announced that he and his wife,...
01.15.2021 Vanityfair.comCharlottesville, Va. , Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau (CACVB) is excited to welcome several new additions to the area''s robust tourism po...
01.13.2021 Benzinga.com and 4 sitesRepresentatives of three cities in Connecticut adopted the "Fundamental Orders, " the first written Constitution in an American colony and one of the first founding document to cite the authority of "the free consent of the people. " On January 14, 1...
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