Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism Paul Joel Richard
The story of how Daniel Webster popularized the ideals of American nationalism that helped forge our nation's identity and inspire Abraham Lincoln to preserve the UnionWhen the United States was…
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The story of how Daniel Webster popularized the ideals of American nationalism that helped forge our nation's identity and inspire Abraham Lincoln to preserve the UnionWhen the United States was founded in 1776, its citizens didn't think of themselves as "Americans." They were New Yorkers or Virginians or Pennsylvanians. It was decades later that the seeds of American nationalism--identifying with one's own nation and supporting its broader interests--began to take root. But what kind of nationalism should Americans embrace? The state-focused and racist nationalism of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson? Or the belief that the U.S. Constitution made all Americans one nation, indivisible, which Daniel Webster and others espoused?In Indivisible, historian and law professor Joel Richard Paul tells the fascinating story of how Webster, a young New Hampshire
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