Duty to our Constitution comes first | Letters
Hereâs what readers are saying in Mondayâs letters to the editor.
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President Joe Biden waves as he arrives at the White House after visiting wounded troops and touring a COVID-19 vaccine center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. [ EVAN VUCCI | AP ]
Published Feb. 1
Our duty to the Constitution
Iâm a Democrat, but I like to think of myself as someone who is open-minded. I mean I understand everyone has different interests and agendas, but I canât understand the Republican Party or at least their representatives in Congress. Do they not understand that their duty lies not to their party or own aspirations, but to the Constitution of the United States?
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How Will History Textbooks Deal with the US Capitol Attack?
The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks appeared in texts published in 2003, although textbook writers were still trying to understand the full ramifications of 9/11 at the time. How will this episode in American history be recorded?
Editor’s note: The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol represented an event unlike any other in American history. But how will it be portrayed in history textbooks used in America’s K-12 schools and colleges? Here, three scholars of American history weigh in.
How soon can we expect this attack to be included in history textbooks?
Editor’s note: The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol represented an event unlike any other in American history. But how will it be portrayed in history textbooks used in America’s K-12 schools and colleges? Here, three scholars of American history weigh in.
How soon can we expect this attack to be included in history textbooks? Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University. Binghamton University
Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University
The unprecedented nature of this attack, combined with the widespread sense that it marks a historical turning point, ensures that it will appear in textbooks as soon as publishing turnaround times allow.
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(Reuters) - The storming of the halls of Congress by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters is the latest episode of violence to darken the U.S. Capitol in a history dating back to a British arson attack in Washington during the War of 1812.
FILE PHOTO: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump protest in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith/File Photo
With five lives lost on the Capitol grounds, including a woman shot by police and an officer injured in the melee, Wednesday’s turmoil appeared to rank as the deadliest violence to unfold in and around the citadel of American democracy in 200 years.