LETTER FROM RALPH WALDO EMERSON TO MARTIN VAN BUREN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONCORD, MASS., April 23, 1838. SIR: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen. By right and natural position, every citizen is your friend. Before any acts contrary to ...
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A Modell of Christian Charity written by John Winthrop for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630 A MODELL HEREOF God Almightie in his most holy and wise providence hath soe disposed of the Condicion of mankinde, as in all times some must be rich, some poore, some highe and eminent in power and ...
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Professor Ted Goossen of York University has generously allowed us to share his forthcoming essay, “The View from Outside: Canadians Sing America.” It will appear in Get Away From Me: American Culture in Canadian Pop Music, to be published next year by Sophia University Press, ...
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Posted on November 29, 2013 at Thoughts on Turtle Island War and Thanks: A Troubled History of Thanksgivings by Randa Tawil Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday during the Civil War I remember clearly on Thanksgiving Day, 2006, a New York Times article came out which concluded ...
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