![]() ![]() Army, served military tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and taught the nation’s checkered, often inspiring past when he was an assistant professor of history at West Point. ![]() The author of the series, Danny Sjursen, an active-duty major in the U.S. When, exactly, were we “great”?īelow is the fourth installment of the “American History for Truthdiggers” series, a pull-no-punches appraisal of our shared, if flawed, past. As our current president promises to “Make America great again,” this moment is an appropriate time to reconsider our past, look back at various eras of United States history and re-evaluate America’s origins. The stories we tell about ourselves and our forebears inform the sort of country we think we are and help determine public policy. Truthdig editor’s note: The past is prologue.
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