Joel Richard Paul- INDIVISIBLE DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM
What was an American after the United States was founded in 1776? Most Americans of the day would be stumped by that question. They tended to think of themselves more as Virginians or New Yorkers, not Americans. That is until Massachusetts Senator and later Secretary of State Daniel Webster entered the scene, popularizing the ideas of American nationalism that helped forge a sense of national identity, one that would later inspire Abraham Lincoln to fight to preserve the union and launch the Civil War. Considered one of the greatest orators of his time and a statesman in the same league as…
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