Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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The temporary restraining order will remain in place for 14 days while the parties brief the pending motion for a preliminary injunction.

A roundtable on the arc of U.S. history at the nation’s semiquincentennial with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, David Waldstreicher, and Nikhil Pal Singh.

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American historian David Waldstreicher has identified eleven ways of looking at the Declaration of Independence. "What could be more American?" They are: The Enlightenment Way The Republican Way The Congressional Way The Democratic Way The Government Way The International Way The Godly Way The Whining Way The Nationalist Way The Racialist Way The Antislavery War See how he unpacks these here. Here is Waldstreicher's conclusion: Americans fought a civil war in the 1860s over how to interpret the Declaration of 1776 as well as the Constitution of 1787. These disagreements have been difficult and sometimes even deadly.

Critics obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over the implications of the American Revolution.

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabs

From Revolutionary New York to immigration and Indigenous identity, Graduate Center scholars illuminate the people and forces that have shaped America over 250 years.

The global politics of 1776.

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

Michael Holzman, The Ideological Origins of American Studies at Yale, American Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, American Studies: A Critical Retrospective (Summer, 1999), pp. 71-99