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America's Birthday

This is how I prefer to think of my nation: a cutting of the English oak, transplanted across the sea and set in the wild, vast soil of the new continent, and fed with the added spores of all other nations in their turn, until it became something vast and quite unique in human history.

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The 4th of July and the Perennial Pursuit of Our Eternal Principles

The 4th of July commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the principles it contains. Today should be seen as a reminder to acknowledge and live out those principles, but also to remember one of the greatest Americans to embody those principles.

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Using Literature to Reaffirm the Truths of Independence Day

Teaching the principles that make America exceptional has never been easy, especially now in our utterly divided times. So on this Fourth of July, perhaps we ought to try a different route to pass on our nation's founding principles- stories.

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When The Fight Comes to You

A brief personal encounter with Black Lives Matter protestors, brought to mind a whole host of questions of what we would do if we found ourselves in a violent situation.

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What Westerns tell Us About Americans, Then and Now.

The American Western genre is our nation's own mythos that was and remains emblematic of an American character that stands as a warning to tyrants both within and without the country. They tell us as much about ourselves today as they did when they were first written.

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