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- 1From:USA Today (Vol. 146, Issue 2876)The exhibition "Hamilton: The Constitutional Clashes That Shaped a Nation" explores Alexander Hamilton's fraught relationships with James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Aaron Burr. Examining the...
- 2From:American History (Vol. 53, Issue 1)The duel that Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought on July 11, 1804, is American history's most studied --shootout. At Weehawken Flats, an isolated ledge on the New Jersey bank of the Hudson River across from what...
- 3From:American History (Vol. 52, Issue 2)The run-up to Donald Trump's inauguration featured complaints that Vladimir Putin had helped Trump win. A dossier of rumors, published by BuzzFeed, alleged that Trump campaign officials had been in friendly contact with...
- 4From:America (Vol. 200, Issue 12)I was looking out my window at the winter silhouette of a white beam in our garden at Blackfriars Priory in Oxford, wondering what I could say about the topic proposed to me, "the shape of the church to come." It struck...
- 5From:Phi Delta Kappan (Vol. 89, Issue 10)THIS LONG political process that has brought out the uniqueness of almost every state and given unprecedented status to the "voter" largely came about because of a trunk full of books. I learned this while searching...
- 6From:Smithsonian (Vol. 44, Issue 8)CAROLINE WINTERER HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN JULY 1757 Benjamin Franklin arrived in London to represent Pennsylvania in its dealings with Britain. With characteristic dry humor, Franklin, then 50, had written...
- 7From:The Objective Standard (Vol. 12, Issue 1)[Hamilton] is a great man, but, in my judgment, not a great American. --U.S. President-elect Woodrow Wilson, Democrat (1912) (1) When America ceases to remember [Hamilton's] greatness, America will be no longer...
- 8From:National Review (Vol. 63, Issue 1)EVA MOSKOWITZ is a traditional, down-the-line Democrat in almost every respect. She's a Jewish New Yorker from a family of FDR liberals. "My grandmother would turn over in her grave if she knew I was being interviewed...
- 9From:Smithsonian (Vol. 38, Issue 6)THANKS TO A RICH historical record, we do not have to imagine the reaction of Gen. George Washington when, on July 31, 1777, he was introduced to the latest French "major general" foisted on him by the Continental...
- 10From:Smithsonian (Vol. 36, Issue 10)BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was a man on a mission. In October 1776, he sailed for Paris, where he joined two other Americans. All were there to persuade the French government of King Louis XVI to form a political alliance with...
- 11From:National Review (Vol. 59, Issue 5)Mario Chanes de Armas was a revolutionary, sailing with Fidel and Che on the Granma. He was caught and jailed by Batista. Once the revolution succeeded, he happily resumed his life. But he soon landed back in...
- 12From:Reason (Vol. 38, Issue 11)In American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier (Hill & Wang), Patrick Griffin, a historian at the University of Virginia, both re-examines the role of frontiersmen in the American founding and...
- 13From:The American Scholar (Vol. 74, Issue 2)
Leading men: authorities on the Revolutionary era say how the Founding Fathers became culture heroes
Big men demand big books, or so the doorstop proportions of recent Founding Father biographies suggest. Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, at 600 pages, weighs nearly three pounds. The evergreen David McCullough offers... - 14From:American History (Vol. 49, Issue 2)AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, Massachusetts governor John Hancock presented a silk banner to an African-American military unit in Boston in recognition of its service (right). Another relic of this little-known...
- 15From:American History (Vol. 38, Issue 3)I daresay, you would be as disappointed in him as I was.. .1 expected to have seen a rough, stout, warlike Roman. Instead of that, I should sooner think of wrapping him in cotton wool and putting him into my pocket,...
- 16From:Esquire (Vol. 158, Issue 5)As part of our 75th anniversary celebration in 2008, we partnered with video art st Lincoln Schatz to create a randomly manipulated and constantly chang ng digital artwork called "Esquire's Portrait of the 21st...
- 17From:Military History (Vol. 24, Issue 6)There are more illusions and myths afloat about the War of Independence than about any other war Americans have fought. Start with "No Taxation Without Representation," one of the war's galvanizing slogans. This...
- 18From:The Christian Century (Vol. 111, Issue 3)An article by William J. Murray in a Southern Baptist Convention publication stated that the US Constitution was resolved after a day of prayer, but this simply is not so. There was no prayer meeting, as Murray claims....
- 19From:USA Today (Vol. 129, Issue 2664)"The doctrine of separation between church and state has been abused, twisted, and taken out of context in recent court decisions in order to prevent the public worship and acknowledgement of God." IN HIS FIRST...
- 20From:National Geographic (Vol. 199, Issue 3)Soundless as a black-water river, a paddler in Georgia follows in the wake of William Bartram, one of the first naturalists to explore the wilds of the American South. As settlers strove to subdue the wilderness,...