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Adding the Lens of Literature to the Testimony of Primary Documents

This summer, Suzanne Hunter Brown will join historian Jennifer Keene (Chapman University) to lead a course on the history and literature of the 20th century’s World Wars. Using primary historical…
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Lincoln Defines the American Understanding of Equality

On June 26 in 1857,

Hamilton Explains the Compromises of the Constitution

New York was the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution. Its ratifying convention met between…

McGovern Criticizes the Carter Doctrine

South Dakota Senator George McGovern, although spectacularly unsuccessful as a Democratic candidate for President in…
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FDR’s D-Day Prayer

At a crucial moment in the struggle to defeat Nazi Germany, Franklin Roosevelt dispensed with…
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Reagan Commemorates D-Day at Pointe du Hoc

This year marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day—June 6, 1944—when Allied forces landed on the…