Sean Wilentz’s impressive new book The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln ambitiously tries to mend these breaches by presenting a history in which the fragments of identity ...

INSKEEP: Wilentz chronicles these battles in a book called "The Rise of American Democracy." President John Adams curtailed civil liberties in the 1790s because he feared an enemy within.

His most recent book is [The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln], published by W.W. Norton. ... Q&A with Sean Wilentz. 900 Views Program ID: 192371-1 Category: Q&A Format: Interview ...

Sean Wilentz: We Are Witnessing the Degradation of Democracy Published Oct 15, 2016 at 4:00 AM EDT Updated Oct 21, 2016 at 12:32 PM EDT Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton debate at Washington ...

Historian Sean Wilentz posits the archetypal singer-songwriter as a confluence of our nation's history. ... (“The Rise of American Democracy,” “The Age of Reagan”) ...

Every Bob Dylan fan has a before-and-after story. One minute, he's croaking songs that make no sense, and the next, "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" has you thanking God you have ears.

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz argues majority rule, the foundation of democracy in the United States, is being deliberately undermined. The tension over majority rule and minority rights dates ...

The Humanities Council invites the campus community to join us for a new series of public lectures given by the Council’s Old Dominion Research Professors for 2018-19. Sean Wilentz (George Henry Davis ...

Wilentz is the only American historian ever to win both a Bancroft Prize — for “The Rise of American Democracy” — and a Grammy nomination for the 50-plus pages of liner notes he did for a ...