But as in the American past, they use violence and threats to force people to labor for no pay.

For most of the American past, national political conventions were genuine pivot points.

It is safe to predict, however, that the American past will be revisited.

Many people seem to be surprised and unsettled by this aspect of the American past.

And he has an understanding of the American past that does justice to many kinds of historical experience.

This is an American past that many grandparents lived, and still remember.

That's the steamboat whistle, and what a sound it is: nothing less than the voice of the American past.

The whole day was drenched in the symbolism of the American past.

He is a sturdy 6-year-old who is not interested in the American past.

You two seem mature enough to appreciate the American past at its best.