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Today, Jon Meacham explains why American history is a perennial struggle—and why that struggle is not the work of a day (though it’d be really nice if it were).

In American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union, Meacham assembles what he calls “the Star Wars bar scene of American History”: an anthology of documents from Fr…