Peter C. Myers, a former visiting fellow in American political thought in The Heritage Foundation's B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of "The Limits and Dangers of Civil Disobedience: The Case of Martin Luther King Jr.” and "Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism."
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Mark Twain copied a friend’s remark into his notebook: “I am not an American; I am the American.” That is a claim—to be the American, the exemplary or representative American—that very… Read More
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“There is division in the American house,” President Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation on March 31 of that year, just before announcing that he… Read More
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Frederick Douglass, the greatest of all American abolitionists, possibly the greatest American champion of the cause of equal rights, was born 200 years ago in… Read More
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More than most years, 2018 will be a year filled with remembrances of Martin Luther King Jr. because in it falls the 50th anniversary of… Read More
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This month of each year, we commemorate the great individuals and events in the history of African-Americans. On Tuesday, marking his 199th birthday, we will… Read More
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The third Monday of each January, we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. by a national holiday. Mindful of his concrete actions and accomplishments and, still more, of… Read More
