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Politicians come and go, but the Constitution stands as the supreme law of the land. Setting forth the workings of our democracy, it is the bedrock document from which we derive our policies on topics as diverse and galvanizing as immigration, gun ownership, voting rights, taxation, policing, civil ... Read More about The U.S. Constitution: Explained--Clause by Clause--for Every American Today

Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison--together they are best known as an intimate cadre of daring, brilliant men credited with our nation's founding. But does this group tell the whole story? In his widely praised new history of the roots of American patriotism, celebrated a... Read More about Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that showed "why we must move past historical nonsense so that a truer, more democratic national record can emerge" (School Library Journal) Originally published to universal acclaim, award-winning historian Ray Raphael's Founding Myths has since establish... Read More about Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world," but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of '74 fills in this gap in our nation's founding narrative, showing how in these mislaid months, step by ste... Read More about The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began

Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People's History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, ... Read More about A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

This book is a walk into the inner lives of our military personnel where fear, pain, and anxiety are intermingled with intense love and a sobering dedication to the protection of our nation. Issues like these are personal, at times full of hurt turning a normal life into a frightening, sleep deprive... Read More about THE OTHER SIDE OF MILITARY LIFE - A Chaplain's Point of View