Whose America is it?

By: Ren Brabenec

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: July 3, 2026

Words: 968

Last Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago

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As the nation celebrates 250 years, Tennesseans have an opportunity to reflect on their history. We rightly condemn the exclusionist policies of the past. Can we not apply that same moral fortitude to the present?

One of the few surviving daguerreotype photographs of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States, depicts an aging Tennessean in his bedroom at his Nashville plantation home, just two months before his death. Some Americans still lionize Jackson, …

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