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Our Unethical Republic

William E. White | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics

Obedience to the law is not enough. Americans demand legal and ethical behavior from themselves and their fellow citizens.

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It All STEMs From a Big Idea

Julie Kantor | Posted 05.10.2013 | Business

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I am still on cloud nine after attending the TEDx Rock Creek Park Conference last week titled 'The Hero's Journey.'

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Everyday People and the American Revolution

John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.01.2012 | Politics

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We elevate the events of the American Revolution to near-mythical status all too often and forget that the real revolutionaries were people just like ...

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Social Media of the American Revolutionary War

Todd Andrlik | Posted 04.13.2012 | Media

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Just as social media is helping to ignite and organize the Arab Spring, printed newspapers fanned the flames of rebellion in colonial America, provided critical correspondence during the Revolutionary War.

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When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

Mental Floss | Posted 03.19.2012 | Weird News

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The United States was a British colony for more than 150 years and they share a common language, but at some point, the way the citizens of both count...

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Does America Still Have The Moral Courage Of 1776?

Rev. Chuck Freeman | Posted 09.11.2011 | Religion

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I don't believe most American's have the moral courage of 1776. Our souls are starving. There is hope for us if we change our appetite, and do an extreme makeover of our diet.

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Jill Lepore: Tea Party Time... and the Death of Compassion (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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There's more religion than politics in the 2010 Tea Party, Jill Lepore is saying. There's less of 1776 about it than of 1976 -- that dyspeptic post-Vietnam, post-Watergate bicentennial moment.

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This Fourth of July, Celebrate 1776 -- The Movie

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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1776 is a reminder that the embrace of the status quo in the face of revolutionary ideas is nothing new. Nor is bloody legislative compromise or our ongoing frustration over a Congress mired in petty squabbling.

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Old Drinking Song, Lyrics From 1814, a National Anthem in 1931

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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The Star Spangled Banner did not become the national anthem until 1916 when President Wilson declared it by Executive Order. But it wasn't until 1931 that it became the National Anthem by Congressional resolution.

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