Jessica's American Conversations

(When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d) My lifetime has seen the Civil War and the rise of the United States as a commercial and polit...

Our discussion in class on Wednesday about Thoreau encouraging people to go their own away and not "becoming part of the machine,...

In my Political Theory class, we're learning about the defense and arguments against democracy. It's so interesting to be reading de...

John Legend has been one of my favorite artists for a couple years now, and last summer he came out with an album with the Roots called ...

Upon attending the panel on February 22 with Laura Flynn, Brian Concannon, and Paul Miller I realized a lot about the relationship bet...

"Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself." -G.K. Chesterton

Cullen's sentence: The central figure in Whig party politics and ideology was Henry Clay, who championed what he called "The Ameri...