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A million people voted for Andrew Jackson in 1828.
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Updating international institutions for the 21st century.
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Iraq, Iraq and Iraq.
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David M. Kennedy, history professor at Stanford University, talks about the importance of lifting the bottom billion out of poverty.
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War, Kennedy says, should always be the last resort.
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America used to take the lead in creating a latticework of institutions.
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The peculiar relationship between political and civil societies.
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They’d be reasonably proud of the fact that we have maintained a large and robust civil society, but they’d be of two minds about the role the United States plays […]
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Life on this earth, David Kennedy says, is a veil of tears.
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It’s easy to assume the past is irrelevant.
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Kennedy talks about injecting new issues into the debate.
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We fought a very different war than every other belligerent country.
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A departure from the triumphalist account.
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A people without a collective memory is a people without a collective identity.
