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John Bicknell

Midwest, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: The Washington Post, USA Today, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, National Review, The Daily Caller, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Wisconsin State Journal, Roll Call, Stars and Stripes and
Author of 'The Pathfinder and the President,’ ‘Lincoln's Pathfinder,’ and ‘America 1844’ / Next: ‘The Year of Eight Generals’
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Eco-Terrorists Aren't What They Used to Be – John Bicknell

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By John Bicknell
| Law & Liberty
The protesters who flung pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in 2024 claimed, as all such protesters do, that they were justified in their action because some higher principle—in this case, unsustainable food production—was at stake. Like their compatriots in Just for Oil, who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers two years earlier, they surely did not doubt their moral righteousness or question that they were following in the honored footsteps of their eco-terrorist predecessors.
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Slavery, Disunion, and the Violent Election of 1856

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By John Bicknell
| Starting Points
The election of 1856 was the most violent peacetime election in American history. For the first time, a national political party with a legitimate chance to win the presidency campaigned on an anti-slavery platform, putting a fright into Southern politicians, the slave owners they represented, and their Northern sympathizers.
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Old Ways, New Approaches: Reknitting social cohesion in the 21st century

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By Christina Nemr, Eliza Thompson , John Bicknell
| information-professionals.org
The state of civic engagement in the U.S. today by Christina Nemr and Eliza Thompson A worrying trend is emerging in the United States, namely a decline in public trust. Confidence in major institutions fell to a record low in 2022 as Gallup recorded a significant decline in trust for 11 of 16 major U.S. institutions defined by Gallup, including all three branches of government, organized religion, and television news.
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