Victor Nuovo
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Letter to the editor: Unity is the best way to defeat Trump
The 2020 presidential election is Bernie Sander’s to lose. By this I do not mean that I expect Sanders’s to be the Democratic candidate opposing Donald Trump in…
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Victor Nuovo: The aftermath of the Civil War
Editor’s note: This is the 49th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The term “Reconstruction” when applied to the…
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Victor Nuovo: Gettysburg and beyond
Editor’s note: This is the 48th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The Gettysburg Address opens with a reference…
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Victor Nuovo: The politics of emancipation
Editor’s note: This is the 47th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. If it had been up to him,…
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Victor Nuovo: A house divided
Editor’s note: This is the 46th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. In June 1858, the Republican Party of…
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Victor Nuovo: Frederick Douglass, the experience of slavery
Editor’s note: This is the 45th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Frederick Douglass (1818–95) was born into slavery,…
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Victor Nuovo: William Lloyd Garrison
Editor’s note: This is the 44th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The best way to introduce readers to…
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Victor Nuovo: A nation conceived in sin
Editor’s note: This is the 43rd in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. American slavery was a crime committed against…
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Victor Nuovo: Was the Civil War inevitable?
Editor’s note: This is the 42nd in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Was the Civil War inevitable? On the…
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Victor Nuovo: The American Civil War
Editor’s note: This is the 41st in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The essays in this part, which resumes…
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Victor Nuovo: The U.S.-Mexican war
Editor’s note: This is the 40th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The course of this nation’s expansion was…
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Victor Nuovo: The Trail of Tears
Editor’s note: This is the 39th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The term “Trail of Tears” translates an…
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Victor Nuovo: America’s obsession with manifest destiny
Editor’s note: This is the 38th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The Louisiana Purchase (1803), concluded by Thomas…
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Victor Nuovo: Walt Whitman’s vision of democracy
Editor’s note: This is the 37th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. If this nation were endowed with a…
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Victor Nuovo: On Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’
Editor’s note: This is the 36th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” rightly belongs…
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Victor Nuovo: Thoreau at Walden Pond
Editor’s note: This is the 35th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. American civilization would be much diminished if…