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From a Bancroft Prizewinning historian, the fascinating story of how an obscure Puritan sermon was remade into a founding document of American identity For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans a
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more flui
The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Pur