Was America Founded as a Slave Nation? What the Founding Record Actually Shows
Slavery was a grave wrong present at the founding. But the founding also produced the ideas, the laws and, eventually, the sacrifice that ended it.
American History
Thomas Garrity
Thomas Garrity writes the American History column for Radio Purple.
Columns
Colonizer? What America Did With Victory in 1945
Great powers have usually kept what they conquered. After the largest war in history, the United States rebuilt its enemies, freed its largest colony, and fed a city its rivals tried to starve.