Mexican American War

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• Treason, the Death Penalty, and American Identity

  by Carlton F.W. Larson

  The only capital sentence for treason carried out under United States law shows the way that racism is embedded in the idea of national belonging. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
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  Jeb Bush Admires a Really Lousy President — And It’s Not His Brother

  by John Nichols

  James K. Polk was condemned by John Quincy Adams, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln on issues of human bondage and lawless militarism.