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Historian Author Producer Professor Speaker. Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Their service in that conflict steeled their personal courage and heightened their confidence in the American experiment. But they sometimes drew inflexible analogies from the war that led the country into overseas conflicts and imperial overreach.

An exemplary work of presidential history. On Saturday, the Senate acquitted former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. While seven Republicans voted to convict, making it the most bipartisan vote in favor of conviction in a presidential impeachment in history, 43 voted to acquit Trump. In reality, the outcome was never in question because Republicans could not convict Trump without indicting their entire party.

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It comes as no surprise that the Democratic and Republican conventions highlighted the stark gulf separating the two parties. Their differences stem not just from how to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic or differing views about race and racism; they are rooted in fundamentally divergent visions of the American Dream. What emboldened white nationalists to brazenly march through a sleepy college town and then violently assault counterprotesters?

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