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Truths Held in Tension: Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Among speeches denouncing slavery, perhaps the most effective ever delivered is Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass proposed to answer this charged question on…
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Senator Taft Compares the North Atlantic Treaty to the Monroe Doctrine

The North Atlantic Treaty, creating the defense alliance of NATO, was signed in April 1949,…

Lincoln’s View of Reconstruction in July 1864

In July of 1864, the Civil War was in its fourth summer, its end point…

Did Emma Lazarus Read a Letter Washington Wrote to LaFayette?

On Independence Day, several documents well worth reading come to mind. You may wish to…