Britain’s Futile Containment Strategy: Texan Independence and the Mexican War
In the seventh annual Ginsburg-Satell Lecture on American Character and Identity, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall continues...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Britain’s Futile Containment Strategy: Texan Independence and the Mexican War
A nation must think before it acts.
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British Containment Foiled Again: John Quincy Adams’ American System
Editor’s Note: On June 21, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall discussed John Quincy Adams and Anglo-American diplomacy in...
British Containment Foiled Again: John Quincy Adams’ American System
In the sixth annual Ginsburg-Satell Lecture on American Character and Identity, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall will continue...
The Surprising Strategic Consequences of the 1812 War
In the fifth annual Ginsburg-Satell Lecture on American Character and Identity, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall will discuss...
The Amazing Career of Stephen Girard, Philadelphia Tycoon and Philanthropist
In the fourth annual Ginsburg-Satell Lecture on American Character and Identity, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall will discuss...
William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, and the American Founding: The Philadelphia Factor
In the latest installment of his Ginsburg-Satell Lecture series, Professor Walter McDougall will tell the fascinating story of why...
America’s Machiavellian Moment: Origins of the Atlantic Republican Tradition [Or, Where Did the Founders Get Their Ideas?]
In this lecture, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall delves deeply into the origins of the American political...