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Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.
An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Richard Kreitner
,
Peter S. Onuf
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Boston Review
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May 19, 2016
Andrew Jackson was A Slaver, Ethnic Cleanser, and Tyrant
Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.
by
Dylan Matthews
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Vox
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April 20, 2016
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Route Cause
On the 1870s skirmish between John D. Rockefeller and the upstart competitors who built the country’s first long-distance oil pipeline.
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BackStory
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June 5, 2015
Bellatrix and the American Revolution
240 years after the American Revolution, debates over how to interpret the conflict and its leaders continue.
by
Alex Cacioppo
via
Public Books
on
March 9, 2015
An Enemy Until You Need a Friend
The role of "big government" in American history.
by
Steven Conn
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Origins
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November 1, 2014
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Corporations in the Early Republic
An explanation of the Manhattan Company, a bank disguised as a municipal water corporation that helped to transform Early Republican politics.
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BackStory
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June 20, 2014
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The Spirit of Party and Faction
On factional strife in the Early Republic, and why parties themselves were universally despised.
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BackStory
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June 13, 2014
Body Snatchers of Old New York
In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.
by
Bess Lovejoy
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 13, 2013
Died on the 4th of July
Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”
by
Stephen B. Tippins
via
The American Conservative
on
July 3, 2012
His Highness
George Washington scales new heights.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
September 20, 2010
I.O.U.
What replaced imprisonment for debt was something that has become a mainstay of American life: bankruptcy.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
April 6, 2009
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