canon

You can pair them with Borscht either hot or cold, Kasha Varnishkas or Beet, Apple & Herring Salad, all parts of the American-Jewish canon.

Perhaps the Lyceum Speech has lingered outside the main Lincoln canon because it does not sound like the man Eric Foner, a historian, has called “Our Lincoln.”

The canon itself is the product of centuries of scholarship also conducted by white men.

It’s an intriguing addition to the canon, but for mere mortals who haven’t survived abusive, plagiaristic and mystifying advisors to earn Oxbridge degrees — or even just bad bosses — it might be unrelatable.

In 1999, he entered the Star Wars canon: playing a politician battling corruption in Episode I: the Phantom Menace - an experience he later described as "dull".