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The Declaration of Independence was meant to signal the rejection of tyranny and the empowerment of the individual to resist ...

In 1915, former President Theodore Roosevelt criss-crossed the country as a champion of what he called “Americanism.” The ...

Britta Lokting is a writer based in New York. She is a features reporter at Narratively and a humor columnist at The Forward.