![]() ![]() In his new book Indivisible, historian and law professor Joel Richard Paul tells the fascinating story of how Webster, a young New Hampshire attorney turned politician, rose to national prominence through his powerful oratory and unwavering belief in the United States and captured the national imagination. Constitution made all Americans one nation, indivisible, which Daniel Webster and others espoused? But what kind of nationalism would Americans embrace? The state-focused and racist nationalism of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson? Or the belief that the U.S. It was decades later that the seeds of American nationalism-identifying with one’s own nation and supporting its broader interests-began to take root. When the United States was founded in 1776, its citizens didn’t think of themselves as “Americans.” They were New Yorkers or Virginians or Pennsylvanians. ![]()
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