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This is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

From the beginning, America has settled political disputes with extreme violence

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Salon

Maurizio Valsania

Yes, This is Who We Are: America’s 250-Year History of Political Violence

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar...

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CounterPunch

Maurizio Valsania

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was...

13.09.2025 10

The Conversation

Maurizio Valsania

Along with the ideals it expresses, the Declaration of Independence mourns for something people lost in 1776 − and now, too

For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a wounded, fearful society,...

17.06.2025 3

The Conversation

Maurizio Valsania

Trump is the kinglike president many feared when arguing over the US Constitution in 1789 – and his address to Congress showed it

When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − believed that endowing...

05.03.2025 90

The Conversation

Maurizio Valsania

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated − but there are lessons in Old Hickory’s resistance to sycophants

President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson. But a presidential historian says that Jackson diverged in fundamental ways...

03.02.2025 3

The Conversation

Maurizio Valsania

Opinion: Washington’s Thanksgiving and Ours

29.11.2024 4

U.S.News

Maurizio Valsania