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Letters to a More Perfect Union

Letters to a More Perfect Union

著者： Bill Kavanaugh
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Letters to a More Perfect Union is one ordinary American thinking out loud about the country he loves. Each letter takes a single moment from American history, a day or a life or a document, and asks what it still has to say to us now.

No party, no agenda, nothing to sell. Just thoughts from one ordinary American who loves his country enough to expect more of it.

Wilford J. Kavanaugh 2026 世界 社会科学
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  • Rising, Not Setting — Benjamin Franklin and the Last Day of the Constitutional Convention

    Rising, Not Setting — Benjamin Franklin and the Last Day of the Constitutional Convention
    2026/09/17

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    September 17, 1787. On the last day of the Constitutional Convention, an eighty-one-year-old Benjamin Franklin asked the room for something harder than agreement.

    Sourced from the National Park Service's Independence National Historical Park, the National Archives, James Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention, and the Avalon Project's transcription of the September 17, 1787 convention debates.

    Cover photograph: "Detail, crest rail of the Rising Sun Chair," National Park Service, Independence National Historical Park. Public domain.

    Narration is AI-generated using a voice model trained on the author's own voice.
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    11 分
  • September 12th — Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

    September 12th — Twenty-Five Years After 9/11
    2026/09/18

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    September 11, 2001 is the day we remember. September 12th is the one we set down. For a stretch of days and weeks, ordinary Americans became the most generous version of themselves, and nobody had to be told to.

    This letter was written for September 11, 2026 and published that day. The recordings are being added to the archive as they are made.

    Sourced from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the 9/11 Commission Report, the Congressional Record, President George W. Bush's September 20, 2001 address to Congress, Thomas Paine's "The American Crisis," and contemporary reporting on the Montesi and Nedd families from FireRescue1, the New York Daily News, and amNewYork.

    Cover photograph: Military members render honors as fire and rescue workers unfurl an American flag over the side of the Pentagon, September 12, 2001. U.S. Navy photo by Michael W. Pendergrass. Public domain.

    Narration is AI-generated using a voice model trained on the author's own voice.
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    14 分
  • The Whole of It — The Lincoln-Douglas Debates at Ottawa, 1858

    The Whole of It — The Lincoln-Douglas Debates at Ottawa, 1858
    2026/09/18

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    August 21, 1858. Twelve thousand people stood in an open square with no shade and no chairs for three hours, listening to two men argue, including the parts that made their own man look worse. Two years later, one of those men published his opponent's arguments word for word alongside his own.

    This letter was written for August 21, 2026 and published that day. The recordings are being added to the archive as they are made.

    Sourced from the National Park Service's Lincoln Home National Historic Site, the Illinois State Archives, the Illinois State Historical Library's 1908 edition of the debate transcripts, the House Divided Project at Dickinson College, and Smithsonian Magazine's reporting on the debates.

    Cover image: Title page, "Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois." Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Library of Congress.

    Narration is AI-generated using a voice model trained on the author's own voice.
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    7 分
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