What ‘America’ meant before 1776, and who ‘Americans’ are today

Latinos and Native Americans, now frequent targets of racial profiling in immigration enforcement, have been here since before the English arrived.
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What is the American Dream, and has it become harder to achieve in recent years?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Robert Rank, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) Few ideas are as central to the nation’s identity as that of the ...