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Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political life and the pur
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Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the greatest commentators on the American political tradition, viewed it through the lens of two related ideas: liberty and equali
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
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“A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Winner of the Zócalo
The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870
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An important examination of the foundational American ideal of economic equality—and how we lost it. Winner of the Missouri Conference on History Book Award f
Visualizing Equality
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The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture create