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Thomas Jefferson enjoyed hosting dinners devoted to intellectual and political discussions.
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Diocles the billionaire
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Pay the writer
Dickens on copyright
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Applied science and the Constitution
Upsides and down
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Losing America
Britain's greatest blunder
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Analog voting
Better than binary?
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22. Webster responds
Calhoun’s call for force against force frightened even the South Carolinians.
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Reading habits of Americans
Literacy and democracy in the 19th century
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A User's Guide to History
Everybody uses history, some better than others. This User's Guide offers suggestions on how the past shapes the present, and how the present shapes what we think about the past.
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