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Can the Federalist Papers shed useful light on our present predicament? (opens the original)
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I’m teaching a course on the Federalist Papers this semester. I’ve been craving the chance to teach this course for nearly a decade. In recent years, I’ve tried to stuff the papers into other courses, but the truth is they are so dense that they simply need their own. So that’s what I’m doing.We’re taking them on about five papers per session, a week at a time. I planned to have the students catalog all the places where Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay had made arguments about how
Missouri’s “undead” map is buried as SAVE checks are resurrected (opens the original)
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Smithsonian Leader Departs, and Constitution Day Marks Progress as well as Challenges. (opens the original)
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Note: Join us on Wednesday, September 30 at 12:15 ET for our next edition of Headstrong Club on Substack Live! Danielle will be chatting with her friend and co-author on Our Common Purpose, Eric Liu, whose new book Live Like a Citizen: 8 Ways to Change Your Mindset and Our Country comes out in a few weeks.Two weeks ago, Lonnie Bunch III <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/secretary-lonnie-bunch-announces-retiremen
From Roadmap to Classroom (opens the original)
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Note: Join us on Wednesday, September 30 at 12:15 ET for our next edition of Headstrong Club on Substack Live! Danielle will be chatting with her friend and co-author on Our Common Purpose, Eric Liu, whose new book Live Like a Citizen: 8 Ways to Change Your Mindset and Our Country comes out in a few weeks.By Natalie Ermann Russell, associate director of content and marketing at UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy.<p style=
The Map, the Primary, and the Ballot Box (opens the original)
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