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A Nation with the Soul of a Church: Principles and Practice in American National Identity

April 24, 2017
Sarah L. Houser

It is best to think of having a national identity as sharing a sense of accountability for the actions of one’s country. To identify as an American means to take some sort of ownership in the collective actions of its people, to understand those actions as in some way one’s own. Whatever defines us as […]

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