early American
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He also headed up the team for the experimental XP-80, an early American jet built in response to the Nazis’ Messerschmitt Me 262.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Colonial and early American governments required participation in local militias, which were designed primarily for community defense rather than sustained military campaigns.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
The assumption seems to be that we don’t know who he is, and many viewers probably don’t, despite his prominent place in early American letters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, pushed back saying that even early American presidents might have qualified as "habitual drunkards" by the standards of today.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
He was living the great paradox of the early American republic: What was politically essential for the survival of the infant nation was ideologically at odds with what it claimed to stand for.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
