American Insights
American Insights — Dakoda Pettigrew: Born of promise and protest
On Wednesday morning, August 14, 1765, Andrew Oliver awoke to find himself hanging in effigy from a Boston Liberty Tree.
American Insights — Dakoda Pettigrew: Joseph Warren’s last stand
He could hear the cannons roar in Boston as he lay in bed, frozen by a headache. He hadn’t slept in days. His body wanted to rest.
Dakoda Pettigrew: American Insights — Liberty or death
He rose, a Baptist clergyman recalled, “with an unearthly fire burning in his eye.” It was Thursday, March 23, 1775, and the fate of American liberty was on the patriot’s mind. To Thomas Jefferson, he was “the greatest orator that ever lived.” To Roger Atkinson, a spectator, he was “a son of thunder.” To his enemies, he was an insolent traitor to king and empire, a man as infamous for his utterances as the Apostle Paul when he stood on Mars Hill and preached to the people of Athens.
Dakota Pettigrew: American Insights — The Greatness of Jimmy Carter
The train carrying the president-elect sped into Union Station at 3:45 p.m. To Woodrow Wilson’s surprise, few people had gathered to welcome him to the nation’s capital. The Washington Post reported, “It was a strange greeting for the man who is to rule the destinies of the nation for the next four years.”
American Insights — Dakoda Pettigrew: Country before party
On the evening of Dec. 13, 2000, the Vice President of the United States addressed the nation from his ceremonial office near the White House. “Just moments ago,” Al Gore…
Dakoda Pettigrew: Words worth remembering — Edward Murrow’s talk
It was the early American fifties, an age of unprecedented growth and prosperity.
American Insights – Dakoda Pettigrew: Words worth remembering: Truman and the land of hope
It was the day after Easter Sunday, and President Harry Truman entered the Rose Garden at the White House on Monday, April 14, 1952, to welcome the last group of refugees admitted under the provisions of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, which he had supported and signed into law.
Dakoda Pettigrew: American Insights — Lincoln’s pledge, and ours
The words of the Psalmist were on his mind. “If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence (the same thing anyway), “let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.”
Dakoda Pettigrew: American Insights — Words worth remembering from Tessie’s fate and ours
The morning was sunny and clear in a fictional New England village “with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day.”
Dakota Pettigrew: Words worth remembering — The enduring experiment
On Thursday morning, Nov. 7, 2024, New Yorkers — and general readers everywhere — who grabbed a copy of The New York Times were greeted with a historic front page.
