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Daniel Webster -- Perhaps Historys Greatest Orator -- Turned Virginians and New Yorkers Into Americans

Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 8:30 a.m.

When the United States was founded in 1776, its citizens didn\u2019t think of themselves as \u201cAmericans.\u201d They were New Yorkers or Virginians or Pennsylvanians. It was decades later that the seeds of American nationalism\u2014identifying with one\u2019s own nation...