A Constitutional Question: Do American Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?

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Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

"Inevitably, the age of national bootblacks and national oyster houses and national blacksmiths produced national history books."

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