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A daily essay on history, freedom, and democracy, read aloud. Not from a historian or a journalist, but from a tour guide and traveler who has spent as much of life inside America as out of it. Field Notes on the Republic is one person learning out loud, writing toward an America that treats education as a virtue and means it when it calls itself a melting pot. New episodes every day.
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Before it meant a senator talking a bill to death, the word filibuster meant a pirate. Following it from the Dutch and Spanish words for a freebooter to the floor of the United States Senate is a short, clear lesson in h
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On February 1, 1960, four freshmen sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro and asked to be served. It looks like spontaneous courage. It was planned, down to the receipts in their pockets. How di
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On August 18, 1920, a 24-year-old Tennessee legislator wearing a red rose, the color of a vote against, walked in with a letter from his mother in his pocket. Harry Burn cast the vote that finished the Nineteenth Amendme
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The Bill of Rights is the part of the Constitution most Americans can name, so it is surprising that some of the ablest framers argued against having one at all. Their objection was serious: that listing rights might imp
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The case that gave American courts their defining power was, on its surface, a quarrel about a job, and the man who brought it lost. How Chief Justice John Marshall, boxed in by a political crisis with no good options, b
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In 1735 a German immigrant printer sat in a New York jail for setting the type of a paper that criticized the royal governor. By every rule of law then in force, the governor was going to win. How twelve jurors did somet
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On June 1, 1931, the Supreme Court ruled for a newspaper almost nobody would want to defend, a scandal sheet, by a single vote, and settled one of the most important questions in American press freedom. Near v. Minnesota
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A republic, if you can keep it, the line attributed to Franklin at the close of the Convention. Historians treat the anecdote with caution, but the second half is true and easy to forget. The whole point is the condition
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The party out of power in Britain is called His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, and the phrase only sounds like a contradiction. It is one of the most important ideas a free country ever worked out: that you can oppose the g
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Picture an American election in the mid-nineteenth century: no booth, no curtain, often a party-printed ballot handed over in full view of a watching crowd. The private ballot is not a founding feature; it is a reform, a
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