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whats in a name: the name strain
A look at the Weiner “scandal”…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Poor congressman Weiner. But, what did you expect, anyway? I mean would this whole disaster be as big a deal if his last name was ‘Smith’? I mean, c’mon, let’s be … Continue reading
MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Adam Smith, Albert Bierstadt, American Indian Wars, American Revolution, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Bernard Jolibert, Bernard Picart, Christopher Columbus, Conrad Black, Dan Brown, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Williams, Eanger Irving Couse, Edgar Samuel Paxson, Emanuel Leutze, Frederic Remington, French and Indian Wars, George Washington, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Herman Atkins MacNeil, Howard Terpning, Jeff Nall, John Graves Simcoe, John Locke, John Trudell, Keith S. Thomson, Lewis and Clark Expedition, madame Vernet, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Michael T. Lubragge, Randy Newman, Robert Redford, Theodor de Bry, Will Wilkinson, www.willwilkinson.net
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INDIAN GIVERS & LAND DITHERS
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Stuart, American Slavery, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Billy Bowlegs, Comte de Buffon, Conrad Black, E. Adamson Hoebel, Ellen Wallace Sharples, Freidrich von Gentz, Geoff Mangum, George Catlin, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Jerry Keenan, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Marquis de Condorcet, Thomas Jefferson
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