It’s often forgotten that New England, not the South, was the first part of the country to flirt with breaking away. As the War of 1812 dragged on, the northeast region—battered by successive ...

Introduction: "What, then, is the American, this new man?" -- Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen -- Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire -- Fusions and confusions -- ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Montgomery Bell Academy Academic Dean and History Teacher Tim Boyd provides an introduction to his lecture about food and national identity in ...

Representations of Identity and the American Dream illustrates notions of American national identity in light of racial and cultural identities. During the 2016 election, both Democrats and ...

Almost all human beings have one or more social group identities. Probably the oldest social group identity we humans had was our tribal group. These groups lasted for many centuries, but eventually ...

Books can change the way we think and can influence events long after they were written. The Library of Congress exhibit "Books That Shaped... How Books Shaped The American National Identity Books can ...

Washington, DC -- New research by political scientists concludes that available data does not appear to support the claim that Hispanic immigration poses a threat to American identity. Among the key ...

The Republican and Democratic National Conventions, always heavy on glamor and light on substance, are over. It’s time to move beyond sloganeering and address reality. In the United States, the price ...

In a grotesquely unfair 1981 review of TJ Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace, the Rutgers intellectual and cultural historian’s classic analysis of anti-modernism in American thought and the arts, ...

Trump deals in attention-grabbing, absolutist policy promises. He is going to "drill, baby, drill." He is going to shut down the border. He is going to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. He is ...

How a sober look at failed projects of nationalism can help Christians envision a better way. Three days after polls closed on one of the most divisive elections in recent American history, Joe Biden ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. Affective polarization — “a poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion and moralization” — has ...