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From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the fascinating story of how an obscure Puritan sermon was remade into a founding document of American identity"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, " John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade t

Aware of America's backwardness in contrast to European progress, Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 called his country "The most belated of nations". Princeton historian Daniel Rodgers recounts America's efforts to repair the damage of unbridled capitalism. Photos.

Contention, argument, and power have always been the tradition in American political talk. Any country that began in a revolution was bound to have this history. But the language of argument uses particular words with particular, sometimes shifting, meanings and to know what they are and what they meant over time is a critical contribution to political history. It is true that politicians may act as though they are part of no particular ideolo...

The most belated of nations" - so nannte Theodore Roosevelt die USA im Ringen um Arbeiterentschädigungen 1907. Immer wieder beklagten Reformbefürworter die Rückständigkeit der Sozialpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten und forderten eine stärkere Orientierung an ausländischen Vorbildern. Allen Vorstellungen amerikanischer Selbstbezogenheit zum Trotz: Die Träger der Sozialreformen von 1870 bis zum Endes des Zweiten Weltkrieges bildeten ein starkes i...

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