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Hosted by Michael Fowler · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 36 episodes
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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.
Michael Fowler hosts Field Notes on the Republic, a history show with 36 episodes published.
There is a body of language that no one owns, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the speeches of Douglass and Lincoln. It is called the public domain, and the civic texts are there by design, because a text that gover
On this day in 1964, a bill became law that did something the country had promised for a century and never delivered. The story of how it passed, through the longest debate in Senate history, is a story about how a law t
The Constitution opens with a single sentence of about fifty words, often memorized and just as often skimmed past. Read slowly, phrase by phrase, the Preamble turns out to be one of the most useful paragraphs in America
Between June 13 and June 30, 1971, the country compressed a fundamental argument about the freedom of the press into fifteen days. This is the story of those days, told as they happened, from the first New York Times ins
In July 1848, a few hundred people gathered in a chapel at Seneca Falls and produced the Declaration of Sentiments, which borrowed the most famous American sentence there was and changed five words. The form was the argu
Captain Charles Boycott has the particular fame of having his name turned into a word for the thing that was done to him. The story of County Mayo in 1880 is also the story of what the tactic is, and why a collective, no
An earlier essay treated judicial review as a cornerstone. This one makes the case against it, the real argument, anchored in Alexander Bickel's counter-majoritarian difficulty: that unelected, life-tenured judges overru
When the First Amendment was ratified in 1791, the press was not a profession. It was a machine. Recovering the original meaning of the word changes what the freedom is and who holds it: not a guild privilege for credent
Congress comes in two parts, and most Americans stop questioning it. But the two houses are the visible shape of the single hardest bargain of the Constitutional Convention, a deadlock between large states and small that
There are nine justices on the Supreme Court, and the number appears nowhere in the Constitution. In 1937, a popular president freshly reelected by a landslide came very close to changing it. How Franklin Roosevelt's cou
The Montgomery bus boycott is remembered as a moment. It was 381 days. This is about the long, organized, exhausting middle of the story, the carpools and mass meetings and fundraising, because the refusal lit it but the
The Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, but a signed document is only a proposal. It became binding law on June 21, 1788, by a vote of 57 to 47 in Concord, New Hampshire, the ninth state to ratify. The quieter
Hours after adopting the Declaration of Independence, Congress set Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson to designing a national seal. One element survived every revision: E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one. The closest thing th
In 1892 a young Memphis editor lost three friends to a lynch mob, and what Ida B. Wells did next invented much of how investigative journalism is done. Facing a campaign of terror defended by lies, she went and gathered
The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. The enslaved people of Texas did not learn of their freedom for two and a half years. Juneteenth marks that gap, and the hard lesson inside it: a law is not t
Some of the most powerful sentences in American law are also the shortest. A close reading of the Fourteenth Amendment's sixteen words on the equal protection of the laws, what each word is doing, why the framers chose p
When the Supreme Court hands down a decision, the deeper argument is about how the Constitution should be read at all. This essay takes up the case for reading it narrowly and states it at full strength: an argument abou
Few features of American government are argued about more heatedly than the Electoral College. This essay sets out the case for it, the argument its serious defenders actually make, grounded in federalism and coalition-b
Every naturalized citizen takes an oath, and most citizens by birth have never read it. It is the clearest statement we have of what citizenship actually asks: allegiance not to a ruler or a party but to the Constitution
Every four years, a single word climbs the dictionary lookups: caucus. It is one of the most distinctly American words in the language, and nobody knows where it comes from. The mystery is the point, the habit of ordinar
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Field Notes on the Republic is hosted by Michael Fowler. The show is categorised under history (government) and has published 36 episodes.
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