The American Minervan

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  • Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander

    Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander

    Leslie Alexander examines slavery, the persistence of Racism, and how this challenged the American Revolution’s core ideals (July 2021)

  • Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism

    Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism

    The Theosophical Society was founded in New York and directly modeled on the American ideal underlying the Revolution and Enlightenment according to Helena P. Blavatsky. “Born in the United States, the Society was constituted in the model of its Motherland.” This model is the American reinvigoration of Classical Republicanism, upon which its Constitution and Declaration…