A Rare Moment In American History

There are points of deflection along the timeline of any nation where taking one route led to one future and another route that would lead to another. The United States has seen a number of these deflection points, even before it became the United States of America. Largely, these deflection points have been met with the spirit of the American people and successfully navigated. Even the Civil War, as hotly contested as it was, led ultimately to a sense of one nation rather than a confederacy of independent states. Without accepting that as a “good” thing, it was necessary to galvanize the American psyche as a single entity before facing existential threats in the World Wars.

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