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America Compared to History’s Great Empires

Image of Adel Aali (program host) and his guest, Dr. Steven Pincus, superimposed on the Betsy Ross flag, along with an 18th century map of the 13 original American colonies. Visit AARevolution.net for more images of the American Revolution and for interviews of scholars with Adel Aali.

Introduction In this interview: “Americans invariably described their new polity, not just as a republic, but also as an empire… They used the word empire over and over and over again. Watch this segment in the video below (00:10:01) America was founded as a republic. So why did early Americans repeatedly describe it as an […]