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The invention of the United States

Catherine Gouge (WVU): The American Frontier: History, Rhetoric, Concept. An interview with UC-Berkley's Jack Citrin on nationalism, cosmopolitanism and American national identity. The introduction to Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876 by Nicholas Guyatt. An interview with Jay Winik, author of The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800. A review of Christopher Hitchens’ Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man. The introduction to American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy by John Lamberton Harper. David Gordon reviews 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.