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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has always seemed like a kind of temple to me as a devoted disciple of American history. As an intern there this summer, I work on an exhibit about the Star-Spangled Banner and the flag in American culture, and few things could be more American or encompass more of history than my exhibit, “For Which It Stands.” But for all the flag’s symbolism and emotional appeal, even it was not able to touch...
...Jefferson, after returning from a trip to France, wrote down this recipe for his favorite light, airy French cookies so his cook could make them to serve with ice cream. The culinary cravings of a founding father are profoundly more touching to me than any 30-by-34-foot banner, even one that flew over Fort McHenry...
...kill his brother's wife Brenda and her 15-month-old baby Erica. Four months later, Ron--with the help of another brother, Dan--carried out his divine assignment with a 10-in. boning knife. Jon Krakauer tells the story of the Lafferty brothers in Under the Banner of Heaven (Doubleday; 372 pages...
...month, but this one ended with a Supreme Court decision that--according to a suspiciously broad consensus among media elites--is supposed to make lesbians and gays prouder than ever. "A historic legal victory," declared the Los Angeles Times; a SWEEPING REVERSAL, gushed the New York Times in a banner headline, the kind the paper uses when...
...free persons" is shockingly patronizing; it's condescension that has been cast as liberation. I'm glad those two Texas fellas can freely have sex, but they still can't visit each other in certain hospitals, serve openly in the military or get married. Let's save the banner headlines for when they...