I don’t concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.
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Concealing one’s true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out on top.
We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There’s a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.