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.
Civic Education Column
American History
Setting the record straight on the American story: the full context, the real achievements, and the ideals that let the country correct its own wrongs.
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.