politics
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As we drove south towards Hastings, we came across a sign ‘Welcome to Doniphan: Preserving “The Good Life.”‘ This was a rather strangely phrased sign. I could see a sign saying “where you can live the good life” or “where you can find the good life.” However, preserving the good life suggests that it is
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As we neared Kansas City, we decided to detour and visit the restored nineteenth-century Fort Osage. Perched on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River in Jackson County, Missouri, Fort Osage is a reconstruction of the original fort providing a representation of what the site would have looked like in the early 1800s. It is striking how
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While having breakfast in Kansas City, everyone was watching the news. The film of the riots in Los Angeles and the National Guard’s use of tear gas was causing some consternation. I was chatting to a couple of people about the news, as we are heading West, but fortunately, not to Los Angeles. What strikes
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One issue that was clearly very predominant at both Williamsburg and Monticello was how to interpret the stories of enslaved people and how to depict the relationship between the Founding Fathers and slavery. I thought the presentation at Williamsburg, which is the story of all the people who lived here, not just the famous ones,
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Because of the delights of our extended stay in Jersey City, we didn’t get to spend quite as much time as we had hoped in Philadelphia.I’ve spent more time in Philadelphia than any other American city, but not usually as a tourist. I was struck by how much of the meta-narrative at Independence Hall still
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