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...patience is rewarded. Webb has taken a spiritual journey over the past decade, launched by the research he did for Born Fighting, his nonfiction paean to his all-American ethnic group, the Scots Irish. "When I started studying Andrew Jackson, I realized that I was really a Jacksonian populist Democrat," Webb tells the crowd. "Jackson believed that you don't measure the health of a society at the apex but at the base. I believe that too, and that's why I'm a Democrat." There are other reasons. Webb opposed the war in Iraq, and he was increasingly uncomfortable...
...deeply saddened to hear of the death of Harvard College Professor and Professor of History William E. Gienapp (News, “Beloved History Professor Gienapp Dies,” Oct. 30). His class on the Jacksonian Era during my sophomore year showed me how dedicated a Harvard professor could be to undergraduates. In a section that met at 9 a.m. on Fridays, Professor Gienapp kept us laughing at election cartoons and convinced us that nearly every future reform movement had its roots in the Jacksonian period. In addition, his office in the upper reaches of Robinson Hall...
According to Mead, the Hamiltonian school supports pragmatic and situational solutions, the Jacksonian school is populist and values military prowess, the Wilsonian school believes in a moral commitment to the rest of the world and the Jeffersonian school favors a limited degree of intervention...
...Even the Jacksonian, that kind of cowboy diplomacy, has its value,” Mead said, citing the importance of people who took action to help people in the World Trade Center on Sept...
...history of the Union progresses, more and more courses are offered on political issues: “Jacksonian America,” “Reconstruction,” and “The New Deal.” But be that as it may, these courses are islands in a sea of social and cultural offerings like “Communication in the Early Nation...