The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common culture; it’s exceptional because Americans have been able to ...

Merritt is a political historian at Vanderbilt University. He writes the Substack newsletter American Commonwealth and is the author of prize-winning history book, Disunion Among Ourselves: The ...

NMAF copy 39088015272263 gift of John Hasse. Song in a strange land, 1619-1775. The African heritage ; New England and the Middle colonies ; The Southern colonies -- Let my people go, 1776-1866. Two ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.